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French tomatoes become latest food to receive top quality label

Why growers submit to random inspections and taste tests to compete on quality not price

Tomato fear as high-risk virus found in Brittany

Gardeners are being warned to be aware of a high-risk and fast-spreading virus affecting tomatoes, peppers and chillies that could devastate all production.

Tomatoes in French shops fail taste test

Consumer watchdog's blind taste test found just 33% of consumers were satisfied with the quality of the fruit they were eating

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Organic tomatoes ‘should not be produced in winter’

A petition to stop the industrial production of organic tomatoes in warmed greenhouses in winter has been launched.

Right now, France is at peak tomato...

Despite yields of up to 20kg per plant, there is a surprisingly healthy truth about France’s supermarket tomatoes, as Jane Hanks discovers

Scientists create new pesticide-free tomato varieties

Scientists in France have created two new varieties of tomatoes, with an attractive colour, shape, and melt-in-the-mouth taste, and which do not require pesticides to thrive.

'Tomatologue' spends 25 years reviving old varieties

Eric Pedebas who lives in the Hérault, has spent 25 years experimenting with 4,000 varieties in his quest to find the perfect tomato, making a business out of his passion and calling himself a ‘tomatologue’. The Connexion interviews him.

Tomato

French tomatoes become latest food to receive top quality label

Tomato fear as high-risk virus found in Brittany

Tomatoes in French shops fail taste test

Organic tomatoes ‘should not be produced in winter’

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