Blue tomatoes, aka purple tomatoes, are a variety of tomato that ripens to a dark blue, purple blue or black blue color, sometimes with red purple. Blue tomatoes have been developed to produce high amounts of anthocyanins, pigments with strong antioxidant properties and anti-inflammatory and even anticancer activity. Eating blue tomatoes and blue foods in … Read more about Properties and Benefits of Blue Tomatoes
Tomato colors other than red are becoming increasingly popular, especially variegated varieties and dark-colored varieties such as blue tomatoes. Believe or not, blue tomatoes are not exactly blue, and not entirely blue either. Blue tomatoes are essentially darker colored tomatoes with some degree of red-purple and even green or yellow skin and, often times, red-purple … Read more about What Are Blue Tomatoes?
The ‘Round of Hungary’ pepper is an heirloom pepper variety, a specialty pepper grown for its meaty, succulent and firm flesh with a bitter-sweet taste. Also known as the Romanian Gogosar pepper (plural: Gogosari), the Round of Hungary is a fall staple culinary vegetable and the number one pickling pepper in Romanian cuisine, highly appreciated … Read more about Properties and Benefits of Round of Hungary Pepper
Also known as white Holland peppers, white bell peppers are essentially a cultivated variety of sweet pepper. Their distinguishing feature is their pale yellow or pale green skin that looks almost white from afar, hence their name. The cultivar has a pleasant, mildly sweet taste with faint bitter flavors and is great to eat both … Read more about Properties and Benefits of White Bell Peppers
