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Tomato Fun Facts
- It is said that the tomato became popular in France during the French Revolution, because the revolutionaries' iconic color was red, and at one point it was suggested that they should eat red food as a show of loyalty.
- The first tomato plants were planted in Greece by a Friar Francis in 1818, in the gardens of a Capuchin monastery at the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates (built in 335 B.C.) in Athens.
- The word tomato derives from a word in the Nahuatl language (indigenous to central Mexico), "tomatl".
- Early American colonists thought the tomato was poisonous because the plant is related to the deadly nightshade plant.
- In Italy, the tomato is thought to be an aphrodisiac, and is known as the “love apple.”
- Actually a fruit, it took a ruling by the Supreme Court in 1893 to make the tomato a vegetable.
- Tomatoes are very high in the carotenoid Lycopene; eating foods with carotenoids can lower your risk of cancer.
