Black tomatoes: description, varieties
The main feature of black tomatoes is that the fruits of this type have an unusual dark color. Black tomatoes are less common than regular red or yellow tomatoes. Their fruits are not pure black, but dark red, blue, purple, brown.
Description of black tomatoes, their benefits
The original exotic appearance is not the main advantage of tomatoes with a rich dark color of the peel and pulp.
Black tomatoes improve brain and heart function
Dark-fruited tomatoes have a number of advantages over their red and yellow counterparts.
- They contain more antioxidants that help cleanse the body, improve brain and heart function.
- Brighter rich taste and aroma.
- Plant pigments strengthen blood vessels and immunity, help remove excess fluid from the body, and prevent the formation of tumors.
- The increased content of vitamin A has a positive effect on vision.
- Some varieties are more resistant to the negative influences of the external environment.
- With the regular consumption of black tomatoes in humans, the condition of the skin improves and the oxidation processes inside the cells slow down.
Given the huge list of advantages of dark-colored tomatoes, you should familiarize yourself with their well-known varieties in order to choose the one you like for planting in the garden.
There is a huge selection of chokeberry tomato species. And depending on the purpose of use, the timing of ripening and the place of cultivation, it is necessary to determine the variety of tomatoes:
- Black Prince is a salad variety suitable for greenhouse cultivation. The fruits are large, burgundy brown.
- “Black bunch” – an early variety of tomatoes with small dark purple fruits.
- “Creme brulee” is a late variety, from the fruits of which are prepared pastas, juices, salads.
- “Chernomor” is a greenhouse tomato variety with sweet, fleshy pulp. The fruits are consumed fresh.
- “Brown sugar” is a late-ripening variety of juicy chocolate-colored tomatoes.
- Black Moor is a greenhouse variety. Its sweet red-brown fruit is suitable for both winter harvesting and fresh consumption. Differs in high productivity.
- “Gypsy” is a variety that is resistant to most diseases.
There are many more varieties with original “tasty” names: “Negritenok”, “Black Elephant”, “Marshmallow in Chocolate”, “Black Gourmet”.
Caring for black tomatoes is the same as for regular tomatoes, and the taste and health benefits are undeniably higher than that of the usual varieties.