Now what do you think they mean by “tangerine” ? For example would “Sungold” count as having a tinge of tangerine about it ? Do they just mean “orange” or is there some zingy florescent shade, unknown to the English garden, out there ? Anyway my learning from this article is that there is not just lycopene i.e trans-lycopene which is the kind found in the straightforwardly-shaded red tomato – but also a form known as tetra-cis-lycopene found in “tangerine” tomatoes – which apparently, in all its orangeiness, maybe even better for us. And I have to say if I could find a medical study that served me up tomato rich chilli for lunch everyday I’d be signing on the dotted line…
But if not, then it’s off to New Zealand to be amongst friends – the tomato-loving kind – where spending on tomatoes per annum beats their spending on any other variety of veg!
