Yellow Teardrop Tomato
Selection Information
Usage: Use in salads, sandwiches, salsa, chili, stews, casseroles, stuffed or broiled.
Selection: Good-quality Yellow Teardrop tomatoes will be firm, smooth-skinned and be entirely yellow in color with an occasional green blush. 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
Tomatoes are available year-round and come primarily from California, Florida and Mexico.
California tomatoes are available from April through January, while Washington tomatoes are available during August and September.
Yellow Teardrop Tomato Nutritional Information
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Serving Size: 1 medium tomato (139g)
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Calories 21
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Calories from Fat 3
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% Daily Value* |
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Total Fat 0g |
1% |
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Saturated Fat 0g |
0% |
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Trans Fat |
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Cholesterol 0mg |
0% |
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Sodium 32mg |
1% |
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Total Carbohydrate 4g |
1% |
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Dietary Fiber 1g |
4% |
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Sugars |
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Protein 1g |
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Vitamin A 0% |
Vitamin C 21% |
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Calcium 2% |
Iron 4% |
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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.
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Yellow tomatoes are low in Saturated Fat, and very low in Cholesterol. They're also a good source of Dietary Fiber, Thiamin, Riboflavin, Vitamin B6, Iron, Magnesium and Phosphorus, and a very good source of Vitamin C, Niacin, Folate, Potassium, Copper and Manganese.
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
