tomato

TOMATO

When we talk about tomato, the first question that come to our minds is, is it a fruit or a vegetable? Well according to how it grow and breed actually tomato is a fruit. Tomato is grown because of seed so it is the same as the other fruits we know.

The classification of this fruit are:

•       Kingdom: plantae

•       Division: magnoliaphyta

•       Class: magnoliopsida

•       Ordo: solaneles

•       Family: solanaceae

•       Genus: solanum

•       Species: Solanum lycopersicum L. 

Tomato was originally come from mexico. It is the local crop there, but when the spanish come to america, they like this fruit and brought it towards their colonization land such as europe, karibia, and filipina.

Tomato is a very mysterious fruit because of how they protect themself. They are using their tricomes that produce an enzym that could make the insect stood on their leaf die only in a blink of an eye.

As we all know tomato has so many benefit such as:

•       Contain vit. C, A, and K

•       Contain lycophene

•       Taste good

•       Help the woman to make soup

Maybe that’s all for this red fruit.