Tomato By a motherland tomatoes there is South America, where Peruvian American Indians knew this plant yet 2500 thousand years back, and named him «tomal», that is translated as a «large berry». The Spanish colonialists brought a tomato in Europe in a 16 age from purpose of growing in hothouses as decorative plant. Помидор yet long time was examined as decorative plant, and in Germanium he became a room even. In France he was as the best decoration of arbours, and in Russia of him long grew in hothouses among liquid of colors. The garden-stuffs of tomato did not consume long time, counting him uneatable. People were convinced, that a fruit with the bright red colouring contains strong poison. Overcame fear before a tomato Italians which appropriated to the plant new word «Pomo of д оро», that a gold apple meant in translation. From of the national Italian kitchen tomato which got confession in other countries, spread on all Europe.
В It was equated Russia of him with a vegetable only in a 18 age and steel of to grow everywhere. Wild types of this plant seven is counted of varieties which are widespread along the Pacific coast of South of America, and also in Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and on the islands of Galappagos. Tomato it is heat-loving plants, even the small freezings of zgubni for tomatoes. To the word to say, for tomatoes also harmful and surplus temperature of near-by air. At a temperature over 30 degrees in of tomatoes do not take place self-pollination of colors and an ovary does not appear. A tomato of is a valuable food product, what rich in vitamins, pectin by matters, sugars, mineral salts and organic acids. В a tomato is recommended a medical purpose at anaemia, for of excitation of appetite and as an anticorbutic mean. A tomato is useful also and for men, because he reduces the risk of disease of shrine of передміхурової gland. |