{"items": [{"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/368392793226071?comment_id=368469843218366", "anchor": "fb-368469843218366", "service": "fb", "text": "@Chloe: the research was on why ordinary organic or non-organic supermarket tomatoes aren't that flavorful.  They found that uniform color and a less sweet flavor were correlated, and that correcting for the flavor problem gave non-uniform color.  People have been breeding tomatoes for uniform color for decades, mostly because consumers preferentially buy them, but also because they are easier to determine when to pick.  Heirloom tomatoes don't have that issue.<br><br>(GM tomatoes were on the market for a while in the 90s, but didn't work out.)", "timestamp": "1341103059"}, {"author": "Ariel", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/113667834513475506190", "anchor": "gp-1341152739843", "service": "gp", "text": "I can send you the paper if you'd like, although I think the materials and methods section might be more what you're after. Realistically, I would be very very surprised if all of the grad students doing the experimental work actually obeyed this prohibition against tasting the tomatoes. Probably they tested them first, though.", "timestamp": 1341152739}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1341189850724", "service": "gp", "text": "@Ariel\n\u00a0that would be great!", "timestamp": 1341189850}]}