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Most people looking for a good love apple \u201cend up with crap,\u201d a researcher says.<\/em><\/div>\n
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Many of the tomatoes eaten these days are too big, too firm and just plain dull compared with those from a half-century ago, according to new research.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In a paper published Thursday<\/a> in the journal Science, a team of researchers say they analyzed the genetic code of nearly 400 varieties of tomatoes \u2015 from the common red supermarket types to the funky heirlooms found in farmers markets. Led by Harry J. Klee<\/a>, a professor of horticultural sciences at the University of Florida, the team found many of this generation\u2019s tomatoes have lost key elements that make them taste, well, like a tomato.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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To know what makes a good love apple<\/a>, Klee said, you really have to understand three things that go into the vegetable\u2019s<\/a> flavor profile: sugar for sweetness, acid for the sour tang, and dozens of \u201cvolatiles,\u201d or aroma compounds, that make up the euphoric, tomatoey scent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe tomato is unlike some fruits and vegetables in that there\u2019s no one compound that I\u2019d give you that you\u2019d smell and say, \u2018that\u2019s tomato.\u2019 Bananas, strawberries I could give you one compound and you\u2019d know,\u201d he said. \u201cYou\u2019ve got sugars providing the sweetness, you\u2019ve got acids counterbalancing and 25 or more volatile chemicals that are the aroma of the tomato. Without those you have no flavor, it\u2019d just be completely bland.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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