{"id":152,"date":"2013-09-05T03:48:25","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T11:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/natgeokids.com?p=152"},"modified":"2019-10-03T12:00:49","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T12:00:49","slug":"ten-top-tomato-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.natgeokids.com\/uk\/discover\/science\/nature\/ten-top-tomato-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Top Tomato Facts!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>1.<\/strong> Believe it or not, tomatoes aren&#8217;t always red. They can be yellow, pink, purple, black and even white!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2.<\/strong> Found at Walt Disney World Resort, Florida, USA, the largest single tomato plant in the world covers an area of 56.73 metres sq. That&#8217;s bigger than an Olympic size swimming pool!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>3.<\/strong> It&#8217;s thought that tomatoes originally came from Peru.<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>4.<\/strong> Did you know Heinz Tomato Ketchup has a speed limit? If the yummy sauce pours at more than 0.028mph when it&#8217;s in the Heinz Tomato Ketchup factory, it&#8217;s considered too runny and rejected!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"s1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>5.<\/strong> <em>La Tomatina<\/em> is an annual festival in Spain, where people throw 150,000 tomatoes at each other. 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It weighed over 3.5kg \u2013 that&#8217;s more than the average UK newborn baby!<\/p>\n<p><strong>7.<\/strong> In Ohio, USA, they love tomatoes so much that tomato juice is the official state drink!<\/p>\n<p><strong>8.<\/strong> There are around 10,000 varieties of tomatoes worldwide!<\/p>\n<p><strong>9.<\/strong> The first tomatoes in Europe may originally have been yellow. They were first referred to in writing as &#8220;<em>pomo\u00a0<\/em><i>d&#8217;oro<\/i>&#8220;, meaning &#8220;golden apple&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10.<\/strong> Tomato seedlings have been grown in space before!<\/p>\n<p>Bet you didn&#8217;t know that, huh?!<\/p>\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Images \u24d2 Getty Images: Tomato fight (148684748)<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Believe it or not, tomatoes aren&#8217;t always red. They can be yellow, pink, purple, black and even white! 2. 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