Are cherry tomatoes genetically modified?

Friends who like to eat cherry tomatoes may also worry that cherry tomatoes are genetically modified fruits and will endanger their health. Fashionable cherry tomatoes are rich in nutrients, taste good, and are sweet and seedless. They can be said to be suitable for people of all ages.

1. Cherry tomatoes, commonly known as small tomatoes, are loved by the general public because of their rich nutrition, good taste, sweetness, seedlessness and ease of consumption. But recently there have been rumors online that cherry tomatoes are genetically modified foods. Being used to seeing big tomatoes, do you think that small tomatoes and cherry tomatoes are weird? Is it a genetically modified food? Little did people know that small size is a characteristic of primitive tomato varieties.

2. Genetically modified foods are made by artificially transferring genes from other organisms into crops. For example, transferring the genes of flowers or trees into humans is called genetic modification. Are cherry tomatoes genetically modified foods? The cherry tomatoes we eat are actually the most primitive variety of tomatoes, and the giant tomatoes are the varieties that people later hybridized and bred in pursuit of larger fruits. Cherry tomatoes are both vegetables and fruits, and are not genetically modified products. All types of cherry tomatoes on the market are regular varieties, and their nutritional value is basically the same as that of large tomatoes. The reason why some of them taste particularly sweet and have a small and cute appearance is that they are specially selected during breeding to meet market demand. Children and pregnant women can eat it with complete confidence.

3. In fact, the only genetically modified foods sold on the Chinese market are genetically modified soybean oil and papaya. All others are not genetically modified foods. As for some new fruit varieties, the changes in color and shape are only due to the use of special breeding methods, not genetic modification.

4. The word "Qie" in the name of tomato is indeed appropriate. It is from the same family as eggplant, belonging to the Solanaceae family, and its hometown is far away in the Andes Mountains in South America. Around 500 BC, wild cherry tomatoes were collected by the Aztecs into their gardens. As the name suggests, these tomatoes have a slender body comparable to cherries.

5. It was not until later that Italians began to use tomatoes in dishes such as pizza, and tomatoes were truly promoted as a vegetable. Note that up until this point, the tomatoes are still miniature. From then on, the pursuit of larger and more tomato fruits became the main goal of breeding. Subsequently, continuous hybridization and breeding did make tomatoes bigger and bigger. However, these big tomatoes are neither fragrant nor sweet, and even the sour taste is omitted.