Tomato Fun Facts

1. Tomatoes come in many colors: yellow, pink, purple, black, and even white!
2. The largest single tomato plant in the world covers an area of 56.73 meters sq.
   That’s bigger than an Olympic size swimming pool! 
3. La Tomatina is an annual festival in Spain, where people throw 150,000 tomatoes at each other.
4. The largest ever tomato on record was picked in Oklahoma, USA, in 1986. It weighed over 3.5kg (over 7.7lbs).
5. Tomato juice is the official state drink in Ohio.
6. There are about 10,000 varieties of tomatoes worldwide!
7. The first tomatoes in Europe may originally have been yellow. They were first referred to in writing as “pomo d’oro“, meaning “golden apple”.
8. Tomato seedlings have been grown in space.