Kumato

[cloz]

Originally Posted by jennifer28

OK so I was following this thread and it made me go and try some kumatos. I don't like them. What I don't like is they *look* like they should taste so good. Then you bite into it and it's just so bland and gelly-ish. yuck. Of all the store bought tomatoes I do think camparis are better. I actually will go for those when I can't get anything fresh.

I have tried both and I agree that Camparis are better. By the way, the cheapest place I have found for Camparis is BJ's warehouse. Last time I bought them I think they were $4.69/2 lbs. Costco was a dollar higher and Stop and Shop charged $4.69/1 lb.

[travis]

Originally Posted by carolyn137

[Kumato®] was bred by Syngenta and first distributed in England and Australia.

The hype they gave it as coming from the Galapagos Islands and mentioning the tortoises there was and is one of the most over the top hypes I've ever read.

Apparently they've changed their story:

"In the 1970s, Luis Ortega would often go with his father to the fields cultivated by his family in the village of Agra, on the Almerian coast. His curiosity led him to discover that the tomatoes at the end of the lines, which received less water, were a different colour, but were much more intense and sweet in flavour. Having observed this, the young farmer set himself a personal challenge: to grow a tomato with an authentic and intense flavour that was a different colour. This was how the Kumato® tomato was born, on the shores of the Mediterranean.

"Kumato® is the outstanding result of tireless efforts to apply traditional plant breeding techniques and natural cultivation methods. Its origin can be found in the wild tomatoes which grow spontaneously and which adapted to withstand the dry and salty conditions of the Mediterranean region."

http://www.kumato.com/en/-ska-sorulan-sorular.aspx

Too bad Luis Ortega didn't have some of the good ol' American tomatoes from which to start his personal challenge!