The most delicious will be ripe tomatoes in the garden with a strong natural aroma. Of course, only ground vegetables will give you all the benefits and taste. At the end of summer, almost all tomatoes gained natural solar heat. But in winter, they can be distinguished from greenhouse counterparts only at an increased price, because the appearance does not indicate the place of growth of the fruit.
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Instruction manual
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A true Senior Tomato should have a bright smooth uniform. Not a single spot, tear, darkening, bruising should not be on its glossy sides. The color of a ripe vegetable can only be bright red, of course, if we are not talking about pink and yellow varieties.
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Tomatoes tend to ripen after they have been harvested. But the green tomatoes removed from the branch have much less benefit, taste and smell than their counterparts, who have come to condition under a warm sun. You can identify tomatoes that were already red in the box by the unnatural color of the stalk. The stem during storage spoils first. Therefore, you can be sure of the quality of the purchase if you take a whole branch of tomatoes. So, they ripened on time and all together still in the garden!
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The smell will help you choose the right tomato. It should be strong enough, and not slightly perceptible, even if the seller claims that this is normal. The lack of aroma indicates a lack of heat: either the vegetable was plucked still immature, or stored in the refrigerator. Tomatoes do not tolerate low temperatures at all, in the refrigerator they lose their beneficial qualities, taste and smell.
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To the touch, the fruits should be dense, but not hard. The soft tomato has already begun to rot, or at least has been plucked a long time ago. How much the product was stored before sale, you can easily find out by cutting it. The inner chambers should be filled with juicy pulp. The voids indicate long-term storage of the vegetable.
Therefore, never buy many tomatoes at once from an unfamiliar seller. Firstly, you can’t store the vegetable in the refrigerator, and in the heat it will lie for a maximum of two to four days. Secondly, at home you can check the freshness of the product at a slice and decide whether to make more purchases in the same place.
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When choosing a tomato variety, what you are going to do with them plays a decisive role. Large meaty varieties, such as Bull’s heart, White filling, or vice versa miniature Cherry tomatoes, which can be put in the whole salad, are perfect for salads. Canned housewives prefer dense medium-sized tomatoes in the form of cream, such as Lady's fingers. Pink tomatoes perfectly play the role of a separate snack, they are juicy and have a thin peel.