date:May 30, 2012
assembled chemical profiles of 278 tomato samples representing152 heirloom varieties, most of which were bred before the commercial tomatoes of today existed.
Dr Klee said, The effort turned up an unexpectedly large chemical diversity within the heirloom tomatoes. That diversity presented us with an opportunity to really explore what makes consumers favour one tomato over another.
They did a series of taste tests with a consumer panel using a subset of those heirlooms that represented the most