According to legend, the hometown of tomatoes is Peru and Mexico. It was originally a wild berry growing in the forest. Locals regard it as poisonous fruit and call it "Wolf Peach", which is only for viewing and no one dares to eat it. According to local legend, wolf peach is poisonous, which will cause pimples and tumors. Although it is bright red when it is ripe, the red fruit with green leaves is very beautiful and attractive. However, just as colorful mushrooms are highly toxic, people still stay away from them. No one dared to take a bite, but regarded it as an ornamental plant. According to records, in the/kloc-6th century, an English duke named Aurora traveled in South America. He liked to watch tomato plants very much, so he brought it back to England as a love gift for his lover Queen Elizabeth to show his love. Since then, the names of "Lover Fruit" and "Lover Fruit" have been widely circulated. But people grow tomatoes in the manor as a gift to their lovers as a symbol of love. For generations, no one dared to eat tomatoes. In the17th century, a French painter painted tomatoes many times. Faced with such a beautiful, lovely and "poisonous" berry, he couldn't resist its temptation, so he had the idea of tasting it himself. So he risked his life to eat one, and it felt sweet, sour and sweet. Then, he lay in bed, waiting for death. But one day passed, and he was still lying in bed, bulging his eyes and staring at the ceiling. How come? He ate a tomato as bright as a poisonous mushroom and didn't die! He smacked his lips and recalled the delicious feeling of chewing tomatoes. He laughed and told his friends that "tomatoes are non-toxic and edible", and they were all shocked. Soon, the news that tomatoes are non-toxic shocked the west and quickly spread all over the world. Since then, hundreds of millions of people have enjoyed the delicious food brought by this brave man who dares to be the first in the world. Later, someone analyzed the composition of tomato and demonstrated that it contains many vitamins and is a kind of food with extremely rich nutrition, so they moved it out of the park and into the vegetable garden. /kloc-in the 0 th and 8 th centuries, Italian chefs cooked delicious food with tomatoes, which were colorful and delicious, and the guests were full of praise. Tomatoes finally came to the table. Since then, tomatoes have won everyone's love, known as red fruits, golden apples, rubies and love fruits. At present, as a vegetable, tomato has been proved by scientists to contain a variety of vitamins and nutrients. For example, tomatoes are rich in vitamins C and A, as well as folic acid and potassium. In particular, it contains lycopene, which is more conducive to human health, while some fruits such as watermelon, pomelo and apricot only contain a small amount of lycopene. Of course, people call tomatoes "fruits of love" because they really have the same effect as love and can make girls more beautiful! We can see that caring and scientifically literate mothers often let their children eat more tomatoes.
Tomatoes are in China
Traditionally, tomatoes are only eaten as vegetables and fruits, which was first started by Europeans in the19th century. Only in the Guangxu period of the late Qing Dynasty, in the name of edible, better edible varieties were selected and introduced to China. Before that, tomatoes were just ornamental plants in China. The earliest record of tomato can be found in Plant Products written by Zhao Han in Ming Dynasty (16 17). Zhao Han mentioned in his book that tomatoes were brought to China by western missionaries with sunflowers during the Wanli period. 162 1 year, Wang's "Qunfangpu" once again affirmed the origin of tomatoes, and people in later generations did not believe it until 1983. 1around the middle of July, 983, nearly 60 pieces of pottery, lacquerware, rattan barnyard grass and bamboo barnyard grass were unearthed in the ancient tomb of the Western Han Dynasty excavated in Fenghuang Mountain in the northern suburb of Chengdu, and food remains such as rice grains, fruits and animal bones were found. The rice grains are attached to the bamboo barnyard grass. In order to keep a certain humidity, the digger covered rattan and bamboo with wet cloth and transported them to the warehouse of the cultural relics protection institute for preservation. Strange things have happened. After more than ten days, people were surprised to find that plant buds had grown inside and outside the bamboo barnyard. In order to find out the details of this plant, archaeologists invited experts from Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Chengdu Branch of China Academy of Sciences to study it. But the experts couldn't draw a conclusion at that time, so they decided to take the germinated seeds back for cultivation. At the same time, the Cultural Management Institute also left more than a dozen plants for further observation. Vegetable experts from Chengdu Academy of Agricultural Sciences divided the transferred germinated seeds into four pots and cultivated them in the greenhouse. Seven months later, on February 24th, 1984, all the plants blossomed and bore fruit on the same day, and 34 fruits were harvested. The fruit is in the shape of a small red egg, and it is identified as a tomato! Later, the seeds were planted in the open space. In the first ten days of 1985+ 1, three small tomatoes matured. The researchers continued to cultivate it in a large area in the next few years, and found that the growth law of this small tomato is different from that of modern tomatoes: first, it can grow and bear fruit through cutting; Second, it can blossom and bear fruit in cold winter. After summarizing the excavation site environment and academic debates, archaeologists determined that the tomb owner used this small tomato as a vegetable or fruit in the Western Han Dynasty 2 100 years ago. Experts further concluded that the small tomato in the Western Han Dynasty had cultivation characteristics. In this way, the history of tomato eating and cultivation is advanced 1700 years. The discovery of tomatoes in the Western Han Dynasty opened up new ideas for paleobotanists and vegetable experts in China. They began to look for the descendants of China's distant ancestors in the mountainous areas of Yunnan, Sichuan and Guangxi, and later found several "small sour fruits" more primitive than tomatoes in the Western Han Dynasty (this kind of small tomato was also found in Jiuzhaigou area). Experts from Shanxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences specially planted wild tomatoes found in Guangxi on a large scale.