The story of tomatoes is full of rumors, rumors and speculation, but one thing is certain: this red fruit favorite of many people (yes, tomatoes are a fruit) has its origin in Italy. Despite the fact that it is an ingredient essential for pasta, pizza and salads, the tomato is originally from Mexico and Central America. The tomatoes in its original form, however, had nothing to do with this red globe that we know and love today. It was a small fragrant fruit (imagine something like the cherry tomatoes) that Native Americans groups combined with "ahi", a type of pepper to make a well-seasoned sauce. The settlers, however, believed that the tomato was poisonous and no upward Europe dared to eat the fruit until the early nineteenth century - afraid to die. Only the Italians s immediately saw something special in tomatoes, and although at first they may have used the fruit for medicinal purposes, just as consuming tomato sauce, around the sixteenth century. took over 100 years for the rest of Europe caught "taste" the fruit, but at the same time that Americans were just beginning to experiment with tomatoes, French and English already consumed with the force, and part the popularity of fruit is due to the increase in canned foods. Today the tomato is one of the most consumed food items and over 1 billion and a half tons are grown and sold around the world annually - this is something impressive for a fruit that until a century ago provoked fear in people.
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