2006-10-05 09:06:02 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
Because 'off the vine' tomatoes have been picked green and/or barely orange....They dont have a chance to get enough nutrients and nourishment from the vine to develop right.
When left on the vine, they can grow and mature...their cells change and ripen into delicious perfection!!
It's like that with some apples. In the last week before true ripeness, apples starchiness changes to natural sugar, so when you get a variety that should be sweet but is tart and starchy, you know it wasn't allowed to ripen before being picked!
2006-10-05 09:16:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
because it allows the natural sugars and hlavours to develop in the sun with the nutrients supplied by the plant they can develop to their full potential. The problem with this is that they don't travel as well nor last as long this is why they cost more. Picking for transport means picking when they aren't ripe they ripen under stress without nutrients supplied and therefore the natural sugars are reduced. I you really want to check this out grow your own allow one to develop naturally and pick one when its green and ripen it on the window sill, then get someone to help you with a blind tasting. This may seem tenuous but I cant eat mango's in this country because I used to eat them ripe from the tree and the ones we get her are picked Green, they ming in comparison
2006-10-05 16:17:10 · answer #2 · answered by pete m 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They probably don't, its all in the mind. Toms on the vine may retain some of their just picked flavour.
2006-10-09 14:14:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
all tomato's are lush!!!!!. some times i even put them in my beer so no one can have them,i am really mad for them,i even snogged a lass(sort of) just to get the tomato out of her mouth, yes i did it and yes i was so so so so so so so drunk!!! but at the end of the day it a tomato!!!
2006-10-05 16:19:00 · answer #4 · answered by okokok 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they are usually a different type than the ones sitting in the big boxes.
2006-10-05 16:15:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They don't, it's just a marketing trick!
More ripe the tomato, the better it tastes.
2006-10-05 16:09:26 · answer #6 · answered by Cold Bird 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are not plucked from the plant to early so they have a chance to devolp their full flavour.
2006-10-05 16:11:37 · answer #7 · answered by Andy C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that is weird huh!! but so true
2006-10-05 16:08:18 · answer #8 · answered by Happyworms 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋