The cherry tomato is often called "small tomatoes", but it is not a common small tomatoes nowadays. It is a tomato variety bred in Taiwan Province in 1994, which is not a genetically modified variety. It was sold in mainland China for a period of time and stopped selling as early as 24-5. Today's small tomatoes, scientifically called cherry tomatoes, are panicum miliaceum, belonging to the genus Solanaceae, and the plants can grow to 2 meters at the highest. It can be cultivated all year round in China. Only in the north, it grows only once a year, and the rest of the time is planted in greenhouses. Compared with open cultivation, it has a great difference in taste. In South China, because the climate is suitable for the growth of cherry tomatoes, cherry tomatoes with pure taste can be eaten in the open field from July and August every year until February next year.

Cherry tomato, commonly known as many, is also called pocket tomato and mini tomato, and is a member of the tomato family. Fruit shapes are spherical, pear-shaped, vinegar-millet-shaped, and fruit colors are red, pink, yellow and orange. Among them, most of them are cultivated in red. Because it looks like cherries far away, it is named cherry tomato. Cherry tomato is a very good health food, especially suitable for people to pursue natural and healthy trends. Cherry tomato is exquisite and lovely in appearance, with high sugar content, about 7 ~ 8 degrees, sweet and delicious in taste and unique in flavor.