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Purple tomato rolls into action!

Posted on Oct 25th 2006 8:00AM by Adams Briscoe

Filed Under: Nutrition & Supplements

Most of the time a purple-colored tomato should give off some warning signs. After all, red is the preferable shade of this particular culinary vegetable. However, researchers at Oregon State University have been tweaking a different variety of tomato that isn't unlike a blueberry!

This dark-skinned purple version comes from six years of mad science, but is actually traceable from a wild type out of South America. So what's in the new color anyway? Well it's not all aesthetics, believe it or not. The new tone brings with it a phytochemical that fights the risk of cancer and heart disease.

Don't go out looking just yet: it could be another two years before we actually see them. How the public will react to a radically different color of a popular salad ingredient has yet to be seen. Would you be receptive to a purple tomato? It would be interesting to see other varieties of vegetables or fruit undergo a paint job as well!

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Andy C 10-25-2006 @ 9:08AM

I eat ugly veggies all the time. The look is secondary to taste in my book. However with these I hope their not doctoring them on a genetic level but just working on basic hybridization we all learned in school. We don't need any more GMOs, if nature can't accomplish it we probably don't need it the way we think we do.

Marjery Moore 10-25-2006 @ 11:22AM

I hope they haven't been juiced up with anything thats not good for you, as they have been a large part of my diet all my like and I know I will try them, after I do the research on them. I am 59 years old and like I said they have been in my diet all my life even in the winter a can of tomatoes is a snack for me, and I am a very healty woman , very active ,never had a weight problem, and my mind is very sharp. No one believes that I am 59. as my looks have helded up too, so I continue to drink tomatoe juice instead of soft drinks and have tomatoes of some kind every day,as yes I love it and it hasn't hurt me.