🍅 10 Fun Facts About Tomatoes
- agforlife
- 2 hours ago
- 1 min read
Fun facts to test your tomato IQ:
Tomatoes are actually fruits!
Even though we usually eat them like vegetables, they grow from flowers and have seeds — just like apples!
There are over 10,000 types of tomatoes!
From tiny cherry tomatoes to big beefsteak ones — and they come in red, yellow, orange, green, and even purple!
Tomatoes were once feared!
Hundreds of years ago, people in Europe thought tomatoes were poisonous. (Spoiler: they’re not!)
Tomatoes have superpowers!
They’re full of vitamin C and lycopene — a powerful antioxidant that helps keep our bodies healthy.
You can grow a tomato plant from a slice!
Plant a slice of tomato in soil, water it, and wait — you might grow a new plant!
Tomatoes have been to space!
NASA has sent tomato seeds to space to study how they grow in zero gravity!
The world’s heaviest tomato weighed over 10 pounds!
That’s about the same as a big bowling ball!
Tomatoes love the sun!
They need lots of sunlight to grow juicy and sweet.
Tomato juice is a popular airplane drink.
Fun fact: your taste buds change at high altitudes — and tomato juice tastes extra good on planes!
Tomatoes can be squishy science experiments!
Use them to explore seed germination, test for ripeness, or even make natural dye!
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