Tastless Tomatoes

•     As you know tomatoes today are very bland and tasteless fruit, it seems to be. Well in the past it was said “that the tomatoes had so much flavor that you could take one in your hand and eat it straight away just like we regularly eat apples, or peaches,” according to plant scientist Alan Bennett.

•      Tomatoes without the dark green patch are also missing an important genetic ingredient that helps the fruit make more sugar and other tasty molecules. Tomatoes make sugars in chloroplasts. Bennett, who works at the University of California, Davis, and his colleagues found that tomatoes need the correct version of a particular gene one of which is called SIGLK2 to form chloroplasts properly in the fruit. Tomatoes also produce a gases responsible for some of the odors we smell when we in the viscinity of the fruit or around it. These gases affect the way how you perceive the flavor.