A tastier tomato juice
Processed tomato consumption has increased markedly over the past 50 years. However, tomatoes commonly used for processed tomato products are generally not high in flavor quality. A recent Journal of Food Sciencestudy investigated whether a premium Florida plum tomato (Garden Gem) had the potential to produce a high quality processed juice product.
The Garden Gem and a typical grocery store plum tomato variety (Roma) were thermally processed into tomato juices without any …