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Roma Tomatoes
Selection Information
Usage: Use like regular tomatoes or for cooking in Italian dishes.
Selection: Good-quality roma tomatoes will be firm, smooth-skinned and be at least pink in color.
Tomatoes that are partially green will ripen if left at room temperature.
Avoid: Avoid product that is too soft, wrinkled or that has broken skin. Tomatoes with a green
blush will ripen, but avoid product with blotchy green or brown areas.
Seasonal Information
Roma tomatoes are available year-round primarily from California, Mexico and Florida.
California Romas are available from June through November.
Washington tomatoes are available during August and September.
Roma Tomato Nutritional Information
Serving Size: 1 medium (148g)
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Amount Per Serving
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Calories 35
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Calories from Fat
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% Daily Value*
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Total Fat 1g
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1%
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Cholesterol 0mg
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0%
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Sodium 5mg
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0%
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Total Carbohydrate 7g
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2%
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Dietary Fiber 1g
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Sugars 6g
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Protein 1g
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Vitamin A 20%
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Vitamin C 40%
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Calcium 2%
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Iron 2%
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*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Source: PMA's Labeling Facts
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Roma Tomatoes are Low-calorie, Low-fat, Very low
in sodium, High in vitamin A, High in vitamin C,
Cholesterol-free
Tomato Tips & Trivia
- Do not refrigerate tomatoes! They will retain their flavor and ripen
correctly at room temperature. Once they are ripe, use within 3 days.
- This vegetable is actually a berry, and is though to have come first
from the Andes mountains, and the present name is close to the Indian name.
It belongs to the nightshade family, along with potatoes, eggplants, peppers
and tobacco.
- In Europe, where it was taken by the Spanish, the tomato was grown
only as a ornamental for many years. Eating tomatoes was considered certain
to prove fatal. Even in North America, it has been only in the past 150
years that people mustered enough courage to try eating them. That all changed
starting on the courthouse steps in Salem, New Jersey, at twelve o'clock
noon on September 26, 1820, when Colonel Robert G. Johnson ate not one,
but a basketful of tomatoes. He not only lived, he wasn't a bit ill following
his demonstration.
- In 1893, the Supreme Court ruled that the tomato must be considered
a vegetable, even though, botanically, it is a fruit. Because vegetables
and fruits were subject to different import duties, it was necessary to
define it as one or the other. So, tomatoes were declared to be a vegetable
given that it was commonly eaten as one. (Source: The Packer, 6/9/90)
- Tomatoes were popularized in this country when the Creoles in New
Orleans included them in their popular gumbos and jambalayas. (Source: The
California Tomato Board
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