Topic: You cannot beat the taste of home grown tomatoes

[okra]

We have been growing tomatoes every year for the last 20 odd years and every year we cannot wait for our crop to start producing and stop buying those supermarket ones.


http://cyprusgardener.blogspot.com/2011/05/you-cannot-beat-taste-of-home-grown.html

[Squash64]

Same here.
I don't think supermarket tomatoes taste anything like the real thing.

[luckycharlie]

  

   Try Lidl tomatoes on the vine they smell like tomatoes and are good not like your own but much nicer than other supermarkets tomatoes


   X Chas

[Larkshall]

Same here.
I don't think supermarket tomatoes taste anything like the real thing.

There is a very simple explanation of this, your tomatoes (if the same variety) would taste the same if you picked them and then left them a couple of days before eating them. The supermarket ones would taste as good if they were allowed to ripen on the plant then picked and eaten straight away. The simple explanation is that tomatoes lose that wonderful taste and smell within hours of being picked.

[okra]

Supermarket tomatoes are usually sprayed with the chemical ethylene (derived from oil) to finish ripening them whilst in transit. They’re not ripe!

Without wanting it, you get the chemical that ripened your tomatoes, plus the chemical they fertilized it with and the chemical pesticides they used while they were growing them.

I'd rather have my organic home grown ones any time

[BarriedaleNick]

Also a lot of supermarket Toms are grown for other factors other than flavour - they often grow varieties that produce uniform fruits, ones that ship well and store well, ones with good colour, ones that yield well, ones that make the most profit etc..  These are not necessarily the ones that taste better.

We can pick and choose what we want to grow - and eat!