Tomatoes are becoming more popular all over the world. Small tomatoes are especially demanded in the Mediterranean, it is very difficult to find a dish, whose ingredients do not mention the cherry. Cherry tomatoes are a variety of garden tomatoes with fruits of 10 to 30 g, are known by all as an appetizer, which is used to prepare a variety of salads, as well as for conservation. There are certain varieties of cherries that are dried. The name comes from the English word cherry, which means cherry.
This does not mean that tomato and cherry have a similar flavor. Only the appearance and size of the vegetable is very similar to cherry. Cultivate small varieties, as well as normal ones. They grow remarkably both in open terrain and under greenhouse conditions. On the shelves of bunches of cherry tomatoes it looks like a toy, but it is a visual deception. The taste of this small vegetable can add a new flavor even to the most common dish. Despite its small size, this variety is quite high. A brush can reach a length of several meters.
Most of the time it reaches one meter and around 20 fruits are formed. Cherry tomatoes can be as follows: elongated, drop shaped, round. These small tomatoes have a fairly diverse color palette: green, red, yellow, orange, pink. Fans of fresh vegetables are grown not only in the beds, but also on the window sills. For such a high plant, support is very necessary. You can use long sticks. To make the cherry look more presentable, you can use a suspended cough. It turns out a lovely image. Imagine yourself: with cough, rich and quite long brushes and small cherry-like tomatoes that hang. These "accounts" are as if they were strung in an open foliage. If you are going to grow tomatoes in your home, it is better to use varieties whose bushes are small and the height should not exceed 40 centimeters.
It is important to keep the soil moisture so that the fruit does not crack. It is necessary to harvest in time, because if you break them before time they will not be sweet enough, and the overripe vegetable will simply fall. The taste of these small tomatoes is impressive, no one can remain indifferent. In nature, there is a variety of cherry, which is distinguished by its flavor, in which notes of melon, raspberry and blueberry appear. The name of these delicious tomatoes is "Winter Cherry".
When buying cherry tomatoes, you should pay special attention to the smell. The ripe flavors have a very nice and rich flavor. If a tomato does not smell at all, it means that it has been plucked even green, and have not yet had time to mature. When the stem breaks and its color is not natural, this is a clear sign that they have matured. When the tomatoes mature, they lose all their beneficial properties. You have to choose tomatoes of medium size and without any damage.
One way to store cherry tomatoes is to freeze them. This option is appropriate if you want to keep them fresh, but you can also dry the tomatoes or roll them up. But the most common form is considered conservation.
He brought this small variety in 1973. Its creator is an Israeli scientist. The scientist set a goal: to stop the rapid ripening of tomatoes in a warm climate. A genetic combination was created, which contributed to slow down maturation, but at the same time, a method was found that made it possible to use the genes obtained for the development of small cherry tomatoes.
This small vegetable contains: calcium, iron, potassium, phosphorus, vitamin C, E, B vitamins, antioxidants, organic acids and lycopene.
This small variety of tomatoes is an ideal food not only in the winter, since the cherry compensates perfectly the loss of many healing elements. It should be noted that in this tomato there are much more useful elements than in its larger relative. The potassium contained in a tomato is very good for the heart, in addition to eliminating excess fluid from our body. Iron is simply necessary for anemia.
It helps adaptation to cold, all known magnesium. Calcium is necessary to strengthen bones and phosphorus to improve metabolic processes. The most valuable substance found in cherry is lycopene. It is he who gives the tomatoes such a rich red color. It is a powerful antioxidant, which can prevent the development of diseases such as stomach cancer, cancer of the esophagus, intestines and lungs. It is very important that lycopene reduces the likelihood of developing pathologies of the cardiovascular system. With the help of chromium contained in the cherry, it can easily satisfy hunger, and also prevents the appearance of strong hunger. The most important property of these small tomatoes is their low calorie content.
Without this vegetable it is impossible to imagine Spanish, southern French and Italian cuisine. More often for the preparation of salads with cherry tomatoes and meaty. Soups can be made with tomatoes that are too ripe and slightly cracked. For sauces and sauce cherry plum is seasoned.
They can not be used in peptic ulcer disease, and even with remission. But such patients can still eat cherries, but a little - 100 g. Tomatoes should be used with special care for people with metabolic problems. Its use is not recommended to people who are prone to an allergic reaction to any red fruit.
