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> e.g. tomatoes have lost most flavor and nutrition over past few decades can't speak for nutrition (nor do you provide support for that claim) but as to flavo
by _a_a_a_ 3y ago
> e.g. tomatoes have lost most flavor and nutrition over past few decades
can't speak for nutrition (nor do you provide support for that claim) but as to flavour, you clearly haven't been round long! Old fashioned tomatoes were shite I can testify (at least those available in the UK).
- galangalalgol 3y agoMy grandmother said the ones from the 20s in the us tasted way better, but they didn't keep any time at all, which was fine because they grew or raised all their own food.
- serf 3y agosame story here. she also said that it was commonplace for people to have plants that originated from seeds from 'the old world' and brought over; maybe they were at that point closer to some genetic cousin.
- wise0wl 3y agoI grow heirloom tomatoes in the United States, and they are spectacular. The tomatoes available in the grocery store pale in comparison to anything grown in your own garden.
- briHass 3y agoThis probably has more to do with the fact that supermarket tomatoes are picked before they fully ripen on the vine (often green). I also enjoy growing my own (Brandywine is a favorite), and letting it ripen on-vine to the point where it's probably hours away from falling off or starting to rot results in a much better tasting tomato than jumping the gun.