You waged a winning battle against marauding pests. You warded off nasty diseases. You watered, pruned, fertilized, and propped those vines up.Now it’s harvest time, and
How Does Color Impact Tomato Flavor?
22.06.2023 - 14:15 / gardenerspath.com / Kristine Lofgren
How Does Color Impact Tomato Flavor?Tomatoes come in an astonishing range of colors, shapes, and sizes.
Gone are the days when you might only expect to find a choice of small, medium, and large red types at the grocery store. And along with that color variation comes a huge range of flavors.
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Tomatoes can be smoky and complex, or bright and acidic.
Pluck a sun-warmed yellow baby off the vine, and you’re eating nature’s candy. Or, roast a thick-skinned Roma, and you’re tasting a totally different thing altogether.
Short of taking a bite out of every tomato you see at the farmers market (and I’m totally for that idea, by the way…), how do you know if you’re going to taste something sugary sweet or tart and tangy?
The color of the skin offers you a clue. That’s because the same stuff that makes up the color of the fruit also determines the taste you’ll experience.
Coming up, we’re going to discuss the general flavor profile of each color and a few of the best options for each one. Here’s what you can expect:
Before we take a bite out of the various flavors and colors, let’s have a quick lesson on how flavor works to help us better understand what’s going on in our mouths when we tuck into a caprese salad.
How We Perceive FlavorWelcome to our super quick primer on taste. Our taste buds tell us whether something is salty, sour, bitter, umami (or savory), or sweet.
By the way, spiciness like what you might experience after biting into a chili pepper isn’t technically a flavor, but rather, a sensation of heat in the mouth.
Our taste buds (papillae) have teeny-tiny hairs on them called microvilli. These hairs send signals to
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