date:Mar 25, 2014
asted or eaten in salads.
There are some dark coloured tomatoes but Indigo Rose is the only real black tomato and is the darkest that has ever been bred. It was bred by Professor Jim Myers at the University of Oregon in the US and came about after a graduate student was interested in looking at health benefits in tomatoes. They found some tomatoes with purple pigmentation and tests revealed that anthocyanins were providing the colour, the same as blueberries. They crossed the purple tomatoes wi