Genetically modified purple tomatoes get green light to be sold in Australia

Comments

• VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Fuck you. reshades your nightshade

  source
• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You’d think they’d use GM to make them be healthier, last longer, or taste better…

  Nope, we get a slightly different color.

  source

  • maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    From the article

    The tomatoes were bio-engineered for health and nutrition, he said. “You’re basically looking at a blueberry in tomato clothes.”

    source

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I should have read the article, but the change is just pigments:

      The tomato has been modified to produce pigments called anthocyanins, which are found in blueberries and blackberries and thought to have antioxidant properties.

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthocyanin

      They’re pumping up the sugar content, that’s the only change besides color, no health benefits:

      Although anthocyanins have been shown to have antioxidant properties in vitro,[49] there is no evidence for antioxidant effects in humans after consuming foods rich in anthocyanins.

      So yeah, the people who sell it said it was engineered for health and nutrition, but it’s just blue and pumped full of extra sugar bro

      source

      • -> View More Comments
  • Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Supermarkets have already perfected the art of selling perfect looking tomatoes with absolutely zero taste.

    Home grown or nothing.

    source
  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s literally also why beets are red. They oroginally were white. Then someone accidentally grew some that turned red. They thought that was the coolest shit ever, and now beets are mostly red.

    source
• Nottalottapies@aussie.zone ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah, nah

  source