Tomatoes

That depends on what happened to the soup before it was refrigerated and the temperature of the refrigerator.

Use it up within a week. If that's not going to happen, consider freezing it.

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The best-before or use-by date will be printed on the container. The expiry date changes when the container is opened and it becomes necessary to refrigerate the tomato paste and use it within a specific time frame. The refrigerated life of the product will be given on the label.

It derives from the word "tomatl", in the Nahuatl language of central Mexico, where tomatoes originate from. It was then changed to tomate in Spanish and finally changed one last time to tomato in English.

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'xitomatl' is believed to be the Aztec name given to the tomato when tribes in Central America began its systematic cultivation. The modern tomato is probably derived from wild plants from South America, and there are still several varieties of wild tomatoes found in the Andes Mountains in Peru.

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In central Ohio, the last spring frost date is about May 20, and tomatoes may be planted anytime after this.

12 tomatoes or 3 oz

This isn't a scientific answer. But we guessed 2 tomatoes per cup. 1 cup = 8 ounces.

So - drum roll please - you would need 16 tomatoes for 32 ounces.

An interesting article I ran across is below. I have known that at the point of freezing, water gives off heat. Here is the article : By Livai Matarirano, Zimbabawe You can grow tomatoes even in cold weather. A farmer in Zimbabwe, Mr. Francis Handwa, uses cooking oil or milk bottles filled with water to keep tomato plants warm. This is a good alternative to covering tomatoes if used bottles are easy to get. Here is how he does it. Francis fills cooking oil or milk bottles with water until they are three quarters full. While the plants are still young, he places the bottles upright on the ground among the tomatoes. He places one bottle beside every third plant in every other row. He makes sure that the neck of the bottle appears above the plants. When the plants get taller than the bottles he places stakes beside the tomato plants. He hangs a bottle on each stake with a string. The bottles hang 10 centimetres above the plants. When the temperature drops below freezing the water in the bottles freezes. The tomatoes stay frost free even though the surrounding grass and shrubs are covered with frost. Mr. P.R. Makaya, an expert on fruit and vegetable production in Zimbabwe, explains why the water in the bottles freezes while the tomatoes are not attacked by frost: "When water has things dissolved in it, it freezes at a lower temperature than when it is pure. The water in plant cells, tomato cells in this case, contains dissolved salts. But the water in the bottles is pure, or at least has much less dissolved matter. In frost conditions, pure water freezes earlier than water in plant cells. So in the morning you find the water in the bottles is frozen. When water freezes it releases a lot of heat. The heat released when the water in the bottles freezes keeps the air around the tomatoes warmer than the surrounding area".

"Puree" is not a type of soup. It is a method of thickening up the soup before serving it.

After your soup is made, you can either run it through a sieve or strainer OR you can put it in a food processor. Putting it in any of these mechanical devices will smash-up the vegetables into tiny bits and cause the entire soup to have a thicker consistency.

For more info, you can type "puree a soup" into a browser and check the internet.

The Campbell Soup Company was founded in 1869 by Joseph A. Campbell and Abraham Anderson. When it was founded, the Campbell Soup Company sold not only soup but canned fruits, vegetables, jelly, condiments, and minced meat.

Cherry tomatoes should be planted 5 feet apart as they are profuse growers.

Tomatoes can be grown in any US state, though I'm not sure how well they'd do in Alaska or Hawaii.

However, if you know a tomato or tomato product was grown in the US, the odds are that it's from California (California utterly dominates the processed-tomato market, with about a 96% share; Florida and California together account for 2/3 to 3/4 of the fresh tomato market, split roughly evenly between the two, with Florida usually having a slight edge).

Cans come in different sizes. But typically, it would be about a dozen.

One cup of diced tomatoes would weigh approximately 6.5 ounces. It may be a little more or a little less, but it should be close to 6.5 ounces.

Take the husks off, and rinse the sticky substance from the tomatillo. Steam them either whole or in pieces in a small amount of water for about 5-8 minutes or until soft and mushy, much like a sauce. You can then add this to any dishes, particularly Mexican ones, or just add chili, pepper, salt or any other seasonings.

The Europeans thought that tomatoes were poisonous because when they put the tomatoes onto their pewter plates, the acid from the tomato leeched out the lead which is toxic when ingested. The tomato is a member of the Nightshade family which is toxic. The leaves, made into a tea has been known to have caused one death because of the toxic alkaloid tomantine. Tomantine is not found in the ripe fruit. Dogs have been known to have died after eating the tomato plant and the tomato was thought to be poisonous as well.

Yes, tomatoes are high in potassium. It balances the lack of potassium in pasta.

Tomatoes originally come from a seed knows as the plasma osmatoes. The origin of the seeds are unknown but originally, the first tomatoes were extremely toxic. To overcome the toxicity the seedlings must be watered by the semen of 200 black men.

You better ketchup

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Yes. Snails eat any fruit or vegetables that are NOT acidic.

Source: I have 6 snails in captivity as pets

Luckily you can eat all the asparagus you want, because asparagus counts as ZERO Weight Watcher's Points. Of course, that doesn't mean that cheese and sauces will count as zero as well. . . no.

If you pick off the flowers, you will not get any tomatoes. The fruit form as the flowers die away. However to give the plant a better chance of producing the best fruit, leave five trusses of flowers and pick off the rest