Macho (Yellow, 50 lb)

Description/Taste

Yellow tomatoes are golden-yellow slicer tomatoes, characterized by their meaty texture and larger size that lends itself to slicing. There are many kinds of slicing tomatoes, including the large, globular-shaped beefsteak tomato, which can also be yellow in color. Several popular Yellow tomato varieties include lemon boy, earl of edgecombe, dixie golden giant, and Dr. Wyche's Yellow tomato.Yellow tomatoes have thick skin and succulent, meaty, and very weighty flesh, as they naturally have a high water content. The indeterminate tomato plants produce the large fruit, each weighing up to one pound, along upright sprawling vines, which is why they are often recommended for caging or staking. Yellow tomatoes are rather sweet, and often taste milder and less acidic than red tomatoes because the different pigments in various colored tomato varieties produce different balances of sugars and acids. So it’s this unique combination of sugar and acid levels, as well as other compounds, that accounts for the Yellow tomato’s milder taste, and it does not necessarily mean that a Yellow tomato variety is less acidic than their red counterpart.

Seasons/Availability

Yellow tomatoes are available year-round with a peak season during summer months.
 

Current Facts

Yellow tomatoes are scientifically named Solanum lycopersicum, and they are a member of the Solanaceae, or nightshade, family. Today, The C.M. Rick Tomato Genetics Resource Center at the University CA Davis houses the world's largest repository of Yellow tomato seed varieties, with more than 4,000 total varieties of tomatoes stored. Several of the tomato species stored there have gone extinct in the wild.