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Lycopersicon lycopersicum Lycopersicon esculentum

Trivia about tomato

  • Whether it's a fruit or vegetable, it's the basis of pomodoro & marinara sauces for pasta
  • 10 servings a week of foods with this base, like spaghetti sauce, may protect against prostate cancer
  • Among Campbell's condensed soups, it considers the 2 "classics" to be chicken noodle & this one
  • The egg-shaped plum variety of this makes a great spaghetti sauce
  • Arkansas has made the pink variety of this its state fruit & its state vegetable, just in case
  • The leaves & stems of the plant this ketchup ingredient comes from are poisonous
  • Hope you catch up to the fact that a pomodoro is this fruit used in many pasta sauces in Italy
  • It's the number one vegetable (or is it a fruit?) planted by backyard gardeners in the U.S.
  • Often paired with a grilled cheese sandwich, it was the most popular of Campbell's original 21 soups in 1897
  • In 1893, as a result of a tariff dispute, the Supreme Court proclaimed it a vegetable, not a fruit
  • The Almanac's gardener's companion says it's the most popular garden vegetable (or is it a fruit?)
  • It's round! It's red! It's Tennessee's state fruit!--though some might call it a vegetable
  • Though we eat it in salads & think of it as a vegetable, this nightshade member that originated in South America is a fruit
  • The scientific name of this veggie -- or is it a fruit? -- is Lycopersicon esculentum
  • The record for the largest one of these garden favorites was of the beefsteak variety & weighed 7 lbs., 12 ounces!
  • Beefsteak is an often misshapen but delicious type of this
  • Ponderosa, Big Boy hybrid & Sunray are popular varieties of this
  • Supreme Court said this salad ingredient could be classified as a vegetable (but it's botanically a fruit)
  • A "pink" variety of this doubles as Arkansas' state fruit & vegetable
  • A soup can Andy Warhol exhibited in 1960 was Campbell's this, of the genus Lycopersicon, & rice
  • In 1897 Campbell's introduced this flavor of soup, condensed in a can
  • A genetically engineered one of these produce items went on sale in 1994 under the name Flavr Savr
  • It goes on a pizza as an ingredient of the sauce or as a "sun-dried" topping
  • This member of the nightshade family is the main ingredient in marinara sauce
  • "Love apple" is an old name for this popular salad ingredient
  • Redheaded halfpipe hero Shaun White made the cover of Rolling Stone with the line "attack of the flying" this
  • When this member of the nightshade family reached Italy, it was known as pomi d'oro, or gold apple
  • Green zebra, plum
  • There's nothing like a vine-ripened one of these, perhaps the vineripe variety

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