These unappetizing horrors also had an unnatural-looking squarish shape — introduced, so tomato growers boasted, to make them fit conveniently into cardboard boxes for shipping. And most of these offerings — all produced now in massive commercial greenhouses, often located here in Canada — do taste pretty good. Using highly sophisticated technology, scientists there are on the hunt for the “perfect grocery store tomato” that we’ll all fall in love with. Article Continued BelowYet it’s a long haul, as agricultural research inevitably proves to be. They started tinkering with tomatoes several years ago and won’t be finished for a few more.

Source: thestar February 22, 2018 20:26 UTC