Yellow Sweet 100s Cherry Tomatoes
Inventory, 12 ct : 0
Description/Taste
Yellow Sweet 100™ tomatoes offer a sweet less acid flavor as their red counter parts.
Seasons/Availability
Yellow Sweet 100™ Tomatoes make sporadic welcomed appearances throughout the year.
Nutritional Value
Rich in vitamin C, tomatoes are low in calories, cholesterol-free, contain potassium and provide folate and fiber.
Applications
Rinse; toss in mixed green salads or stir-fries. Parsley, basil, dill weed, curry, mint, bay leaves, oregano, chili powder, thyme and garlic are perfect flavor enhancers. Use these refreshing little tomatoes as an attractive and unusual colorful edible garnish. For best flavor, always serve tomatoes at room temperature.
Ethnic/Cultural Info
After proving their safe self-worth, tomatoes were referred to, in their early days of acceptance, as the "great luxury of the American table." Native Americans appreciated the versatile virtues of the tomato and found numerous ways to enjoy its cooperative culinary personality.
Geography/History
Sweet 100™ tomatoes grow on a tall prolific cultivar that produces massive branched fruit clusters that contain up to one hundred individual fruit, hence their name. Originally a tropical plant, warm weather brings out its good looks and flavor. Because tomatoes are of tropical origin, the fruits show their best quality in warm weather. Grown around the globe, the almighty tomato was taken to the Philippines via the Spaniards and in no time was a favored ingredient in Asian dishes and Indian curries. Today the tomato is a favored ingredient in European cuisines. As we know, Italian dishes absolutely idolize it. Mexican salsa would not be the same without it. And food writers and fans of the famous BLT say it would have become simply the BL. Because of its extreme popularity for dousing all kinds of foods, the USDA chairman actually declared ketchup a vegetable in 1981. The big reason? The Reagan administration made budget cuts in school lunch programs in the United States and ketchup would have been history if someone hadn't come to its rescue. Making it a vegetable due to its major tomato base, ketchup stayed in the lunchroom across America.