Could this be the Ultimate Tomato... and why is it Purple? | Food Unwrapped

[@modestoca25]

I want some purple tomatoes

[@TnT_F0X]

'You cant eat it unless we can collect your poo.' Or... scoop out the seeds? I made a calzone with some tomatoes but I took out the seeds cause I didn't want the liquidy insides to sogify my calzone.

[@chadsimmons6347]

I cant eat it? Why grow it?

[@Enclave.]

@@chadsimmons6347 Because it can't leave the nursery yet. It's not that you'll never be able to eat it you just can't right now. Once they have fully developed it to their liking you can bet they'll probably breed a strain of it that has infertile seeds and then they'll start selling them.

[@noahmeme2]

@@Enclave. Actually the creator of this tomato said she wants to be able to sell seeds to gardener's to grow.

[@georgeford6056]

It is awfully suspicious that they wouldn't let her taste the tomato. For those who have never eaten a tomato before, the seeds add nothing to the flavor. She could have tasted the "meat" of the tomato and the seeds could have been strained out so she could taste the juice. By the way, there are naturally-occurring purple heirloom tomatoes (they tend to taste a little more "tomato-ey" than most commercially-grown red tomatoes and yes, you can find them in stores), so they may have done something in a laboratory that nature did long ago.

[@cptntwinkletoes]

It's likely that they have not been approved for human consumption yet, so it's not only the seed issue that they're worried about.

[@jaygallagher6522]

They just don’t want to risk any seed getting out the lab if she eats some and they have missed a seed, when she poops it could end up in the wild

[@modestoca25]

They don't want seeds growing in the wild or being sold, that is why.

[@niel633]

Yeah I agree with the rest of these guys. Imagine all this hard work for someone to find a plant of this tomato and sell it as there own. The guy who found it might even put a patent on the plant.

[@omegaz3393]

@Spirit Talk: Ghostly Encounters by Ryan Privee Genetically modified equals patents equal big bucks. If it gets out in the wild, that's disrupted.

[@ShiningSakura]

if you are looking for sorta purple tomatoes, try cherokee purple variety. Real good heritage breed.

[@arnorrian1]

The color in purple tomatoes like Cherokee Purple is not from anthocyanins. In blue tomatoes like Indigo Rose or Dancing with Smurfs it is.

[@DanSpotYT]

I grew Cherokee purple one year. They were amazingly good!

[@josegiraldo5865]

That woman seems to be an amazing person! Loved the super proud way she said “isn’t it beautiful?😍😭”

[@susanhanstock6879]

How long will Kate have to wait to eat purple tomato? 🤔

[@conortheiaplayer]

two’s worst ever food made

[@raybod1775]

I've tasted these GMO purple tomatoes. Bitter and really not a good tomato taste. Can't compare in taste to dark red tomatoes grown in the garden.

[@Matt-fl8uy]

There are heritage purple tomatoes as well, but it's unlikely you tasted this type.

[@Ixquick979]

You tasted indigo rose tomato which was developed with traditional cross-breeding and selection they only have purple skin while the flesh is normal.

[@English_Lessons_Pre-Int_Interm]

hey, Kathy the scientist, can you spread those seeds? Just give them to some enthusiasts on forums, and they will share it around the world.

[@howdyEB]

They finally released the seeds for me to buy!!! I cannot wait

[@katelynnblatt9614]

just eat the flesh only come on i know that lady has already eaten it LOL, she's way to intimately versed in the procedures of shedding. OR they just have not gotten the insane babbling spiral that leads to pissing your pants and forgetting who you are, before waking up in a stolen car, three days later after you eat it worked out yet, LOL, personally if that is the issue i don't really see a problem, plus purple is my favorite color anyway, and lets be honest here who doesn't wake up in a stolen care from time to time i mean really, LOL

[@sherrycambridge1531]

I Would Eat It !!

[@bbsaid218]

Purple spuds and carrots too..

[@wayneisanamerican]

I would not eat ANY tomato that could stand on a shelf 43 days! Bet the taste like sh*t too.

[@aftermarketmarket489]

And so many people look forward to having that poop in a field.

[@hectorrosado7400]

And this is how the zombie apocalypse begins.

[@Elrich272]

Tomaco!. The Simpsons did it again!

[@sherrycambridge1531]

We Love You Kate !!

[@detectiveconan2840]

So now its available or no?

[@whatduhheell]

MMMM tasty - winner

[@chrisdaviesguitar]

you can buy seeds for purple tomatoes anywhere lol

[@DukeGMOLOL]

These are purple through and through and you cannot buy a tomato this high in anthocyanins.

[@IAMGiftbearer]

I'm about to give these a try!

[@kjsinsaino]

I'm weeks away from tasting my first ripe one! Have you tasted them yet?

[@danielpalma1426]

You could have tasted the to-may-toh by not eating the seeds...😁

[@nosrah9660]

Mate, just accept that accents exist and both pronunciations are correct. Anyways, yeah that’d be a solid workaround. Maybe there’s something else stopping them from being 100% safe?

[@danielpalma1426]

@@nosrah9660 Did I say her way of saying toh-may-toh was incorrect?

[@nosrah9660]

You implied it by taking the extra effort and spelling it out like that. If that wasn’t your intention then first of all, apologies from my end for missing that, second just spell “tomato” as “tomato” and let people pronounce it however they want.

[@suepoch3931]

TFS 👍👍👍👍

[@alkartel6568]

more likely than not, it is a genetically modified produce not yet tasted for safe human consumption that the presenter was not allowed to taste it. Who knows after eating it will be The Attack of Killer Tomatoes......lol

[@English_Lessons_Pre-Int_Interm]

How many years longer could I live if I ate one of these tomatoes every day?

[@omegaz3393]

@inyazserg Sergey Larin A couple hours? There's to many variables to ever be definitive. But they'll live a better life from all the patent royalties😊😊😊

[@God-Emperor_Elizabeth_the_2nd]

“Durrr GMO food bad”

[@tomevans4402]

Great show

[@mediavideos2176]

Purple tomatoes are not as nice as the red ones, they are more bitter.

[@qworky902]

I dont want gmo food

[@cptntwinkletoes]

All food is genetically modified -_-

[@qworky902]

@@cptntwinkletoes not true

[@cptntwinkletoes]

@@qworky902 Everything we eat has been selectively bred for hundreds if not thousands of years. That is genetic modification.

[@qworky902]

@@cptntwinkletoes OBVIOUSLY i meant with modern genetic engineering. I don't want it. Selectively bred tomatoes are perfectly fine.

[@cptntwinkletoes]

@@qworky902 Whether selectively breeding for certain genes or putting them in with genetic engineering, both are GMO's and result in the same product. genetic engineering just cuts out so much of the middle work and is completely safe.