Posts Tagged: tomatoes

Discovery could deliver vintage flavor to a tomato near you

People often complain about grocery store tomatoes, saying they’re too hard and don’t have the flavor we remember from the days of old. And we thought we knew why - because the millions of tons of tomatoes harvested in the United States and...

Tomatoes for flavor, for food and for everyone

Tomatoes are the No. 1 garden crop in America. Everyone who has a summer garden grow tomatoes. There are more blogs, forums, tweets, and garden club and café talks about tomatoes than any other garden vegetable. Tomatoes are used in so many recipes, and...

May showers

A wise man once said that God made weather so farmers would have something to complain about. Or maybe he was just a wise-acre. One very wet spring a few years ago I was talking with another wise man, the late UC plant pathologist Joe Ogawa. I told him...

Joseph M. Ogawa

What makes food nutritious?

Workers sort tomatoes at Russell Ranch Part of our mission at the Agricultural Sustainability Institute at UC Davis is to ensure access to healthy food. So we’ve focused much of our work on the intersection between agriculture and human nutrition. An...

Reducing water use in food processing

Home cooks know the secret to peeling tomatoes is a quick dip in hot water to loosen the skins. It takes a lot of water (and heating energy) to peel three million pounds of processing tomatoes in California each year. New UC Davis research is fine-tuning...