THE WORLD'S FOOD SUPPLY is now unimaginable without the tomato, which although often called a vegetable is actually a fruit of the Solanum lycopersicum species, native to Central and South America. It gradually diffused through the world after 1500, finally becoming the world's largest “vegetable” crop, with recent harvests around 180 million metric tons a year, nearly twice that of dry onions, five times that of peppers, and more than six times that of cauliflower and broccoli. The tomato's versatility explains its rise: eaten unadorned when fully ripe, as part of countless salads, made into purees (Italian passata), soups and sauces, sliced, chopped, baked, fried, and dried.

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