Clifton Park Price Chopper Hosting Tomato Challenge
Posted on Friday, 10 of July , 2009 at 3:25 pm
NatureSweet® Tomatoes are vine-nurtured and hand-picked for homegrown taste.
How do yours measure up? The NatureSweet Best Homegrown Tomato Challenge is coming to New York this year to find out!
The event will be held at the Clifton Park Price Chopper at 15 Park Ave. on Saturday, Aug. 29. Two grand prize winners will be awarded $2,500 each for the best tomato in both the small and large categories, while runners-up will each receive $250 in Price Chopper Gift Cards.
All entrants will receive a special gift from NatureSweet. Only one entry per household is allowed.
This summer NatureSweet will again give amateur gardeners a chance to see how their homegrown tomatoes measure-up. All entries will be Brix tested first (a scientific test used to measure the sugar content in a tomato), and then finalist tomatoes will be taste tested by a panel of local celebrity judges. All remaining tomatoes will be donated to a local food bank after the event.
Clifton Park is one of only a handful of cities across America that were selected for this year’s Homegrown Challenge. The contest will also take place in McLean, VA; Arvada, CO; Lexington, KY; Warwick, RI, and Howell, MI. Entry forms will be available at retail locations in the weeks leading up to the contest. Log onto www.naturesweettomatoes.com for more information.
Did you Know?……Tomato Tidbits
- Several studies have linked tomato consumption to a reduced risk of prostate cancer and other cancers of the digestive tract.
- Tomatoes were originally cultivated in the Americas by the Aztecs and Incas. The word tomato actually comes from the Aztec word “Tomato.”
- Columbus “discovered” the tomato and brought it back to Europe.
- The French labeled the tomato “love apple”; the Germans called the tomato “apple of paradise.”
- By 1850, the tomato was an important produce item in every American city.
- There are more than 4,000 varieties of tomatoes.
- Americans eat roughly 17 lbs. of tomatoes per capita on average each year.
Did you know that tomatoes are cholesterol-free? It’s true! And they are good for you, too.
A tomato is botanically a fruit, not a vegetable, because it develops from the ovary of the plant after fertilization has occurred. However, it is categorized by its use, thus making it a vegetable by law. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1893 that because the tomato is eaten with the main part of the meal instead of dessert, it is indeed a vegetable! Source: NatureSweet Tomatoes 7-10-09
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