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Commercially grown tomatoes are harvested while they are hard and green, transported and stored in that state, artfically reddened by exposing to them to ethyle
by buildsjets 3y ago
Commercially grown tomatoes are harvested while they are hard and green, transported and stored in that state, artfically reddened by exposing to them to ethylene in a gas chamber, then presented for sale in the marketplace as "ripe."
Would you like to know how "Not From Concentrate" orange juice is manufactured? It may not be concentrated, but it involves many industrial processes and can be up to a year old when you buy it.
Fake food.
- MostlyStable 3y agoI'm someone who very much believes in home grown food whenever possible. I have a very large garden (larger than probably 80%+ of the country could even hope to have, thanks to living in the country) and I grow a very large proportion of all the vegetables I eat. So I'm someone who is sympathetic to your view. But I can't disagree strongly enough with calling store-bought and/or industrialized food "fake". It's different. It has different tradeoffs. It's worse in some ways (and better in others), but what it most definitely is not is "fake".
- ipcress_file 3y agoThank you for that explanation. Now I understand why the home-grown versions of the same tomatoes are so different!
- chubot 3y agoI didn't know about the tomatoes, but it doesn't surprise me anymore. I think I learned about Salmon being artifically pink from Hacker News several years ago https://qz.com/358811/heres-why-your-farmed-salmon-has-color-added-to-it https://qz.com/358811/heres-why-your-farmed-salmon-has-color... On the bright side, essentially everyone I know seems to like local produce, BEFORE I tell them it's local. Their taste buds are still attuned, and can tell the difference