Taste: both cherry tomatoes and Millennium can be eaten as fruits, but the cherry tomatoes taste sour and the flesh is a little hard; Millennium has thinner skin, softer meat and more moisture. Generally speaking, Millennium tastes sweeter.
Millennium Fruit is a small tomato variety selected by breeders from cherry tomatoes. Compared with cherry tomatoes, Millennium fruits have better taste, richer nutrition and very high yield, and are still planted in large areas in China. Although there are many varieties of small tomatoes now, the common varieties of small tomatoes on the market are all Millennium, so many people are used to calling small tomatoes Millennium fruits, and the Millennium tomato in Lingshui, Hainan is the most famous.
Cherry tomato, usually called small tomato, is a plant of the genus Panicum, belonging to the genus Lycopersicon of Solanaceae. Plants can grow to 2 meters when they are the tallest. Has the effects of promoting fluid production, quenching thirst, invigorating stomach, promoting digestion, clearing away heat and toxic materials, cooling blood, calming liver, nourishing blood and stimulating appetite.
appear
Cherry tomatoes are oval with a small, pointed head. Millennium as a whole is slightly round, generally smaller, with a round head and no small tip. And the Millennium is darker.
nutritive value
Both kinds of cherry tomatoes have good nutritional value. Two kinds of cherry tomatoes contain special substances such as glutenin and lycopene. These substances can increase human resistance and delay human aging.
However, the Millennium seems to be better. The content of Millennium vitamin PP ranks first among fruits and vegetables, which can better protect the skin, maintain the normal secretion of gastric juice and promote the production of red blood cells.
Origin and price
The origin of Millennium is Hainan and Guangdong, but it is said that the quality of Millennium fruit in Guangdong and Guangxi is not as good as Nanling water in Shanghai, and the corresponding time to market for Millennium is generally the end of the year and beginning of spring.
The price of the Millennium is generally much more expensive than that of ordinary cherry tomatoes, and it is not surprising that it is two to three times higher.