Why Do Tomatoes Taste So Bland?

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The tomatoes you find in the supermarket used to be tastier, but we accidentally bred the flavor right out of them! Hosted by: Olivia Gordon SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Alex Hackman, Andrew Finley Brenan, Lazarus G, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/29/science/flavor-is-the-price-of-tomatoes-scarlet-hue-geneticists-say.html?_r=0 http://www.scienceintheclassroom.org/sites/default/files/research-papers/science-2012-powell-1711-5.pdf [PDF] http://science.sciencemag.org/content/336/6089/1711 https://academic.oup.com/jxb/article/65/16/4589/2877412 Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:End_of_Summer_Tomatoes.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Red_Tomatoes_with_PLU_code.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bryum_capillare_leaf_cells.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tomato_laboratory_research.jpg https://c

Published 2018-12-17 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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