5 Cool Trivia Tidbits About Tomatoes!

1. Tomatoes used to be thought of as being poisonous, because a toxic alkaloid is found in the stems and in the leaves.
2. The cooked tomato contains lycopene and considered a preventative food for prostate cancer.
3. Outside of Valencia, there is a small village that holds the Tomatina Tomato Fight. Spain’s most popular festival, held each year.
4. When you’ve gone without watering your tomatoes for a few days, then you try to hurry and catch up in watering, it will cause them to crack. The inside will soak up the water, getting nice and plump, but the outside will not be able to stretch fast enough to catch up with the inside.
5. The first Tomato soup was made in 1872.

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