Botany
What is the tomato seed?
This recipe uses lots of tomatoes and goes well on pasta and pizza.
What is marinara sauce?
Tomatoes are related to peppers, eggplants, and potatoes. What is this plant family called?
A) Brassicas
B) Cucurbits
C) Nightshades
C) Nightshades
The Aztec word for tomato is tomatl. What does it mean?
A) red fruit
B) plump fruit
B) plump fruit
The Spanish colonizers then called the fruit tomate --> tomato
Tomatoes have been grown in space.
True
Tomatoes were first grown in space in 1984.
This part of the tomato is toxic to eat.
What are the leaves and stem?
This way of preserving tomatoes goes great on a cheeseburger and fries.
What is ketchup?
Which state grows the most tomatoes in the USA?
A) New Jersey
B) California
C) Arizona
B) California
The continent that tomatoes originate from
*Bonus if you get the specific country*
What is South America?
*What is Peru?*
People originally thought tomatoes were poisonous.
True
In the 1800s, European aristocrats ate tomatoes on pewter plates which are high in lead. The acidity from the tomatoes leached the lead into them, causing people to get sick
Botanically, is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable?
A fruit, because the seeds are inside.
This tomato dish is served chilled and originates from Spain.
What is gazpacho?
This is the average amount of tomatoes eaten by 1 American per year.
What is 23 pounds?
During this time period, tomatoes traveled to Italy and quickly became adopted into the cuisine
What is the 1500s?
The average tomato takes 50 day days to ripen.
False, it takes 20-30 days for a tomato to development a color other than green.
The tiny hairs on tomato stems are actually ___.
What are roots?
This fried dish is associated with Southern food but was actually created in the Midwest by Jewish immigrants.
What are fried green tomatoes?
There are over ______ varities of tomatoes
A) 7,000
B) 4,000
C) 10,000
C) over 10,000
In what year did the first genetically modified tomato (GMO) hit the market?
A) 1984
B) 1996
C) 2003
A) 1984, it was called Flavr Savr, aka CGN-89564-2. It was discontinued in 1997 as it was too expensive to produce and it wasn't flavorful.
Tomatoes are cold-hardy plants.
False, they are tropical.
This name is given to the top part of a tomato, which is the strongest and does not get squished easily.
Hint: Heads, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes
What is the shoulder?
When harvesting tomatoes, farmers stack tomatoes shoulders down as they can bear the most weight without squishing.
This French tomato recipe is also the name of a Pixar movie that follows a chef rat.
Bonus: name three fruits that are in this dish.
What is ratatouille?
Fruits: eggplant, tomatoes, zucchini, peppers
Tiny Tim, Yellow Pear, and Sungold are all varieties of:
A) Cherry tomato
B) Slicing tomato
C) Paste tomato
A) Cherry tomato
In 1893, the US Supreme Court unanimously ruled that although tomatoes are botanically a fruit, they will be classified as ____.
What is a vegetable?
Nix v. Heddon (1893) ruled this since there were tariffs on imported fruit.
"Tomato Clubs" were formed by women across the American South in the early 1900s to encourage young girls to join agriculture.
True! This eventually led to 4H clubs