Tomato is one of the basic ingredients in most of the cooking
preparations that can be seen in the kitchen. In fact, you can
eat it as it is since it’s a fruit, and not really a vegetable.
You can just add a few slices of it in your favorite salad, and
all other healthful stuff that you do in your kitchen.
Nonetheless, there are also top 10 interesting facts about
tomato that you should know. The word tomato actually derived
from the word Tomati which is a Nahuatl Aztec word which was
also traced from the Spanish word tomate. Hence its botanical
name is Lycopersicon esculentum which means wolf peach since the
shape of it is round and has a luscious appearance. Nonetheless,
it actually originates in the Western part of Central and South
America which was discovered by Cortez who actually brought it
to Europe which was just part of his curiosity that it could
serve as an ornamental display, and was never eaten when growing
first varieties of it in Europe. On the other hand, citizens in
France call it as love ap