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Post by Marches on Apr 18, 2015 11:11:58 GMT -5
Was wondering if there was since in many fruits such as grapes you can find a range of flavours. Grapes can come I'm flavours similar to blueberries, blackberries, black currants, strawberries and even apricots.
If say there were tomatoes with other fruit flavours maybe varieties could be selected for such flavours, not so much for use in cooking but eating raw in a manner like people would eat strawberries.
Anyone know the range of flavours in tomatoes? I hear yellow ones are less acidic and sweeter but I've never looked to closely at tomatoes.
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Post by Marches on Apr 18, 2015 11:14:31 GMT -5
Primarily what I'm trying to say here is would dessert varieties with novel flavours be possible from what is essentially a culinary crop?
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Post by flowerweaver on Apr 18, 2015 13:47:13 GMT -5
In the solanaceae family there are tomatillos that have a pineapple taste, and garden huckleberries that with a lot of sugar can somewhat mimic blueberries. I grow at least 100 varieties of tomatoes, many of them sweeter than others but not exactly having the flavor of something else. Many make good marmalades. Visually, I grow several that are fuzzy and look like peaches that are sweet, but I wouldn't say they taste like a peach.
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Post by blueadzuki on Apr 18, 2015 14:33:23 GMT -5
A while back I found a pair of incredibly pale yellow/white (essentially, colorless transparent) cherry tomatoes in a punnet of mixed heirlooms. When I ate those I was supervised to find that the were so sweet they were more like table grapes in flavor than tomatoes. First time I was ever sorry I had put some vinegar on a tomato.
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Post by darrenabbey on Apr 20, 2015 13:52:25 GMT -5
The variety "USDA 97L97" is so high in beta-carotene that the fruit taste more like rose-hips than a typical tomato. Unfortunately the variety has the uniform-ripening trait, which has a consequence of less sugar and other compounds in the ripe fruit compared to older varieties without the trait.
I'm hoping to make some crosses with the variety to improve the flavor over the next few years.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Apr 20, 2015 18:01:45 GMT -5
The variety "USDA 97L97" is so high in beta-carotene that the fruit taste more like rose-hips than a typical tomato. Unfortunately the variety has the uniform-ripening trait, which has a consequence of less sugar and other compounds in the ripe fruit compared to older varieties without the trait. I'm hoping to make some crosses with the variety to improve the flavor over the next few years. I'm wishing you lots of success. That's the kind of project that I really like to see people working on. Some of the members of my family are chronically deficient in vitamin A. It would be good to use a high Beta-carotene tomato in routine cooking... |
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Post by darrenabbey on Apr 20, 2015 20:12:17 GMT -5
The variety "USDA 97L97" is so high in beta-carotene that the fruit taste more like rose-hips than a typical tomato. Unfortunately the variety has the uniform-ripening trait, which has a consequence of less sugar and other compounds in the ripe fruit compared to older varieties without the trait. I'm hoping to make some crosses with the variety to improve the flavor over the next few years. I'm wishing you lots of success. That's the kind of project that I really like to see people working on. Some of the members of my family are chronically deficient in vitamin A. It would be good to use a high Beta-carotene tomato in routine cooking... I don't imagine any result of the project being something you could swap in for a regular tomato, as the taste is so different, but I think it can definitely be improved and that recipes could be designed for it in a similar way to typical tomatoes. |
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Post by diane on Apr 20, 2015 21:32:09 GMT -5
Not just flavour is important. Fruit texture is very important - the crunch of a blueberry, or apple, the slurpiness of a ripe peach or fig.
I'm trying to remember if some of those tiny wild-type tomatoes were similar in mouth-feel to a blueberry. I guess I'll have to wait till this summer
and compare them on the same day.
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