
08/10/2025
🍅ONLY BECAUSE THEY ARE IN SEASON🍅
I LOVE TOMATOES … but they do come with a reputation. Commercial tomatoes are OUT. In season , vine ripe and certain varieties especially open-polinated cherry tomatoes can be a summer delight. The average content of some classes of antioxidants is higher in cherry tomatoes than in normal-sized berries.
There phytonutrient intake is totally associated with the 11 stage of ripening. The antioxidative ability, the level of carotenoids and the amount of glycoalkaloids are strongly influenced by the maturity of the tomato fruit on the vine.
If you are not growing your own variety of open-polinated tomatoes ; frequent farmers markets and ask if the tomatoes are picked vine ripe. Early harvested tomatoes are disrupting to your metabolism and cannot give you the balanced concentrated nutrients they offer unless they complete their 11 stages….and the popular lycopene developes in the last stage. Glycoalkaloids are high in the begining and decrease during maturity. Actually the small glycoalkaloids in cherry tomatoes are known factually to fight cancer.
🍅I have waited until this time of the year to share some great tomato recipes. Simply pulse blend the first 4 ingredients then add lime juice (1tablespoon) and 3 tablespoons olive oil…blend again.
In Health,
Chef Nelda MS Holistic Nutrition