name: Cherry Tomato
flavor_db_name_variants: cherry tomato
source: foodb
status: draft
food_db_id: Cherry tomato
id: 172
name_scientific: Solanum lycopersicum var. cerasiforme
description: A cherry tomato is a very small variety of tomato that has been cultivated since at least the early 1800s and thought to have originated in Peru and Northern Chile. Cherry tomatoes range in size from a thumbtip up to the size of a golf ball, and can range from being spherical to slightly oblong in shape. The more oblong ones often share characteristics with plum tomatoes, and are known as grape tomatoes. The berry tomato is regarded as a botanical variety of the cultivated berry, Solanum lycopersicum var. cerasiforme
itis_id: 566309
wikipedia_id: Cherry tomato
picture_file_name: 172.jpg
picture_content_type: image/jpeg
picture_file_size: 51260
picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:38:31.000Z
legacy_id: 182
food_group: Vegetables
food_subgroup: Fruit vegetables
food_type: Type 1
created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:24.000Z
updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:04:18.000Z
creator_id: null
updater_id: null
export_to_afcdb: false
category: specific
ncbi_taxonomy_id: 195583
export_to_foodb: true
public_id: FOOD00172