La biografía del Tomate:

For many centuries, the tomato has traveled great

distances becoming the

most popular fruit in the entire American continent.

It is native to the Andes of Peru,

where it appeared wild with a round red fruit. It gradually

spread to

throughout South America from where he continued his journey to Central America. There,
thousands of years ago

of years, they called it "xitomatl" in the Nahuatl language, which was the language spoken by the
nation

Aztec; it was there that it was harvested, cultivated and improved – producing greater diversity

of fruits. For many centuries, the tomato stopped its way in that área.

Shortly after Columbus discovered the New World, the tomato continued its journey and

by the middle of the 16th century it accompanied the Spanish explorers on their return to Europe.
In

Spain was awarded the name "Pomo de Moro" or "Moorish Apple;" this was the first

of many names they assigned. Its oldest mention originated in Italy in 1544 in

where it became known as “Pomo d’oro” or “Golden Apple,” suggesting that perhaps the first

The tomato that reached the ancient continent was a yellow variety.

During the following decades, the cultivation of different varieties of tomatoes spread

through Spain, Italy and France where it was called “Pomo d’amore” or “Apple of Love,” which

vulgarly it could have been a corruption of the name originally assigned in Spain.

This was accepted very early in the Mediterranean region as a food, but during

his trip to the north and east of Europe had great mistrust and the best classification that

obtained for more than a century was that of an ornamental plant. During the Elizabethan era,
great

part of the English people believed that its beautiful red color was a warning sign that it was a

poisonous fruit This reasoning encompassed many factors: because of their membership in the

nightshade family, because of the sharpness of its leaves and also simply out of sheer superstition
of people because German folklore is highly identified with plants of the family

nightshade, with witches and with people who easily turn into wolves, recognized

the resemblance between tomatoes and these superstitions and ended up assigning the name of

"Wolf's Peach." In 1753, the naturalist Kart Linnaeus in honor of this note of folklore

popular German, assigned to the tomato the scientific name of Solanum

Lycopersicum for being a wolf peach of the family

nightshade In the year 1768, botanists adopted for the

tomato the scientific name of Lycopersicum esculentum what

literally translates to wolf peach which can be

to eat.