Look, I'll go a far county mile to avoid cancer. But there are some things I just will not do:
It tastes like a tomato, smells like a tomato, and even looks (mostly) like a tomato. There's just one catch: It's purple.
The USDA has approved a genetically modified purple tomato, clearing the path for the unique fruit to be sold in American stores next year. ...
To engineer the purple tomatoes, the scientists used transcription factors from snapdragons to trigger the tomatoes to produce more anthocyanin, creating a vibrant purple color.
Martin and her colleagues published the first results of their research in 2008 in an article in Nature Biotechnology.
The results were "stunning," she said. Cancer-prone mice that ate the purple tomatoes lived around 30% longer than those that ate normal tomatoes, according to the study.
Oooh yeah. Just imagine how good you'll feel as you choke one down of these appetizing, delectable-looking Franken-tomatoes:
I mean just look at it. That's not a beautiful in-season Cherokee Purple. That looks like someone took a supermarket slicer tomato and colored it with a purple Sharpie.
Thankfully they make it easy for us:
The distinctive purple color means that "it takes no imagination to see that it's different," Pumplin said. "It really allows people to make a choice."
Yeah I know what my choice is!
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