🍅 Tomato

Solanum lycopersicum

A juicy red fruit that we usually eat like a vegetable in meals and salads.

Round and smooth with shiny red skin and soft, juicy flesh full of little seeds.

Juicy and a little sweet and tangy at the same time.

Full of vitamin C and lycopene, a natural color that helps keep your body healthy.

Eat them fresh in salads and sandwiches, or cooked into sauce, soup, and pizza.

Grow on leafy vines from small yellow flowers that turn into green then red fruit.

Best and sweetest in summer, when the sun ripens them on the vine.

First grown long ago in South and Central America, then carried around the world.

A tomato is really a fruit because it grows from a flower and holds seeds, even though we cook it like a vegetable.

Keep tomatoes on the counter, not the fridge, so they stay full of flavor.