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Tomatoes have been linked to multiple Salmonella food poisoning outbreaks in the US. [108] [109] One in 2008 caused the temporary removal of tomatoes from stores and restaurants across the United States and parts of Canada. [110] In 2022 and 2023, an outbreak of Salmonella Senftenberg ST14 affected the US and 12 countries in Europe. [111]
Helmeted guinea fowl in tall grass. Many foods were originally domesticated in West Africa, including grains like African rice, Pearl Millet, Sorghum, and Fonio; tree crops like Kola nut, used in Coca-Cola, and Oil Palm; and other globally important plant foods such as Watermelon, Tamarind, Okra, Black-eye peas, and Yams. [2]
Countries by tomato production in 2017. This is a list of countries by tomato production from 2016 to 2022, based on data from the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. [1] The estimated total world production for tomatoes in 2022 was 186,107,972 metric tonnes, a decrease of 1.7% from 189,281,485 tonnes in 2021. [1]
Food historian Lois Ellen Frank calls potatoes, tomatoes, corn, beans, squash, chili, cacao, and vanilla the "magic eight" ingredients that were found and used only in the Americas before 1492 and were taken via the Columbian Exchange back to the Old World, dramatically transforming the cuisine there. [17] [18] [19] According to Frank, [20]
Large fruited yellow tomatoes with red swirls, and mild/sweet flavor [12] Blaby Special: Red 70–80 Heirloom Medium Round Originally from Blaby England and supplied throughout the country during WWII. Cultivar was brought back into cultivation in 2006 [13] Black Beauty: Black 80 Open-Pollinated Hybrid 10–14 oz Beefsteak Indeterminate Regular ...
In 1988, the Israeli botanist Daniel Zohary and the German botanist Maria Hopf formulated their founder crops hypothesis. They proposed that eight plant species were domesticated by early Neolithic farming communities in Southwest Asia (Fertile Crescent) and went on to form the basis of agricultural economies across much of Eurasia, including Southwest Asia, South Asia, Europe, and North ...
Production of some products is highly concentrated in a few countries, China, the leading producer of wheat and ramie in 2013, produces 95% of the world's ramie fiber but only 17% of the world's wheat. Products with more evenly distributed production see more frequent changes in the ranking of the top producers.
The tomatillo (Physalis philadelphica and Physalis ixocarpa), also known as the Mexican husk tomato, is a plant of the nightshade family bearing small, spherical, and green or green-purple fruit of the same name. [1]