If you are invited to submit a tomato, you will draw a red round vegetable in your imagination, and you will doubt very much if you are shown something else. In fact, at the moment a new species has been introduced - black tomatoes are kumato.
Tomato tomatoes grown in many countries of Europe, in Turkey and Australia, are obtained by crossing, according to one source of information without the use of genetic engineering, and on the other - they are genetically modified. But the birthplace of this vegetable culture is the Galapagos Islands.
Tomato Cumato - description
Dark brown, almost black, very dense peel, unusual structure of pulp and a more sweet saturated taste distinguish tomatoes from all kinds of ordinary red tomatoes.
Kumato can be of different sizes from large ones weighing 120 grams to small sized, like cherry , weighing 80 grams. The shape of them can be round, oval and plum-shaped. They are stored longer than normal tomatoes.
In black tomatoes, more dry substances and fructose, vitamins (in particular vitamin C) and antioxidants (namely anthocyanins) are more common.
Tomato kumato: useful properties
Thanks to anthocyanins, which give tomatoes a black color, they protect our body from cancer, cardiovascular diseases, improve visual acuity, strengthen blood vessels, fight with edema, that is, prolong youth and promote the formation of immunity. In addition to the qualities already mentioned, tomatoes are usually used as aphrodisiacs, stimulating sexual attraction and activity.
They can be used in different ways: to fill soups, cut into salads, to use when making ketchup and tomato juice. But
On sale sometimes there are black tomatoes in a green strip. This is not a special kind of cum, but simply the fruit of tomato is not mature. They can be safely grown in our climate, but the most important thing is to find their seeds for planting. At the moment, this is problematic, as in the horticultural stores they are extremely rare. The way out in this situation will be the allocation of seeds from purchased fresh fruits or purchase them in European countries. The very process of growing exotic black tomatoes Kumato does not differ from the cultivation of the usual red ones.
Due to their useful qualities and improved taste, black tomatoes are becoming more popular.