date:Mar 13, 2017
no ill effects.
The trust mentioned this to Dr Jessica Cooperstone, who is one of the leading scientists in the US studying tangerine tomatoes. She suggested a possible reason.
Allergens are always proteins and tangerine-coloured tomatoes lack a functional copy of the enzyme carotenoid isomerase (a protein), however this enzyme is functional in red tomatoes.
So it could be this protein in red tomatoes that is causing an allergenic response in some individuals.
Hence the possibility exists t