Wild tomatoes are small and unpleasant tasting, doesn&#x27;t that kinda blow the premise?<p>The modern tomatoes we eat are genetically modified by humans through breeding which we like to call domestication. This genetic modification caused them to be bigger and taste pleasant.<p>My understanding was there was push to breed them to be uniformly red when ripe but this also caused a mutation to make them more bland, this occurred in the 1940&#x27;s before &quot;modern&quot; genetic engineering, which incidentally no tomatoes currently on the market are engineered that I am aware of.<p>I always think it ironic to blame modern techniques like genetic engineering for all sorts of issues like somehow a cow, chicken, pig, tomato, corn or wheat are somehow &quot;natural&quot;, these are all genetically modified organisms that would not exist without human tampering.<p>We have twisted nature for thousands of years to have higher yields and more desirable characteristics, if tomatoes are bland I would imagine we will twist them some more to make them flavorful again if the market demands it, but their &quot;natural&quot; &quot;wild&quot; cousins have never been tasty.