You say tomato I say GM yum yum
GM tomatoes may ward off cancer – shame they’re purple - Times Online
The plants were given genes from the snapdragon, a garden flower, which enable them to produce a type of nutrient that may protect against cancer.
When the tomatoes were included in the diet of mice bred to be susceptible to cancer, the animals’ lifespans were significantly extended, according to the British scientists who created the tomatoes.
One idea is that foods like the “super-tomato” could help people meet the government’s recommendation that everyone should eat five portions of fruit and vegetables a day. Using such foods they could eat fewer portions but get the same benefit.
Bring them on - it is only this summer after forty years of avoiding tomatoes that I finally learnt to like them - no one had told me they needed a pinch of salt on them before. Now I love them, And I can even eat them in extremis without salt, just like with a woman the memory of her perfume lingers on so the saltiness of tomatoes remains as a memory of the senses to be enjoyed even when they are bare and naked.