Tomatoes belong to vegetables. Whether eaten raw or cooked after processing, it is not the same as common fruit eating methods, and most of the planting places belong to vegetable gardens, not orchards.

The origin of tomatoes is the Andes in South America. There are still large areas of wild species in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia. Tomatoes are divided into color tomato subspecies and green tomato subspecies. The former has many colors when the fruit is ripe, while the latter is green when the fruit is ripe.

Tomato fruit is rich in nutrition and unique in flavor. It can be eaten raw, cooked and processed into tomato sauce, juice or canned whole fruit. The edible part of tomatoes is juicy berries. There are many varieties of it, which can be divided into round, oblate, rectangular and pointed round according to the shape of the fruit; According to the color of peel, there are red, pink, orange and yellow.

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Tomato classification:

1, by category: hybrid varieties, conventional varieties.

2. According to the use, it is divided into fresh tomato varieties, canned tomato varieties and processed tomato varieties.

3. According to the fruit color: pink tomato varieties, red tomato varieties, yellow tomato varieties, green tomato varieties, purple tomato varieties, color tomato varieties and so on.

4. According to the size of fruit type: large fruit tomato varieties, medium fruit tomato varieties, cherry tomato varieties, etc.

5. According to fruit shape: oblate tomato varieties, round tomato varieties, tall round tomato varieties, long tomato varieties, peach-shaped tomato varieties, etc.

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