How Tomato Color Impacts Flavor

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Humans eat with their eyes and with their memories of impactful flavors. Craig likes tomatoes with intensity, but he knows that everyone’s tasting preferences are different. That’s why he’s taken lots of time to understand the intricacies of different tomatoes. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3sgsigv Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3P0miBk EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3qEoJAn Learn More: 38 Types Of Tomatoes For Glorious Garden Success Connect With Craig LeHoullier: Craig LeHoullier, PhD (chemistry), advisor for tomatoes to the Seed Savers Exchange, co-leader of the Dwarf Tomato Breeding Project, author of Epic Tomatoes and Growing Vegetables in Strawbales (Storey publishing), approaching his 40th year of gardening. Instagram Website YouTube Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Epic Homesteading, and Jacques) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	My friends, I have a confession to make.
0:04.5	I once entered the belly of the beast.
0:06.8	I went into Seminac seed company owned by a month's santo.
0:10.6	I was there.
0:11.6	I'll admit it.
0:12.6	And I tasted 40 plus different tomatoes on a color wheel, flavor wheel, either this whole
0:18.0	scientific thing.
0:19.0	They had this whole weird process of how they determine the best tomatoes.
0:23.3	And I, you know, honestly, I felt a little bit like a spy.
0:26.2	But you have to give it to them.
0:28.9	They actually have codified tomato flavor.
0:31.6	It's pretty impressive.
0:33.2	Not saying I endorse some of the things they do, but it was interesting.
0:36.0	We have Craig Luhulli, you're back in the show.
0:37.8	I know you've gone very deep into this world.
0:41.2	Yeah.
0:42.2	I know we're trying to figure out like what are the best ones to grow in my area, maybe
0:45.8	for growing conditions, but also like if you grow for flavor, you grow for flavor.
0:50.0	And so what do we know about tomato flavor and breeds?
0:54.5	Yeah.
0:55.8	This is such an interesting topic.
0:57.7	The first thing we think about, or I think about, is nostalgia.
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