Pineapple tomatoes are one of the largest and heaviest tomato varieties. Individual fruits can weigh over 1 kg. The fruit shown in the upper 4 pictures weighed “only” 649 g. So that the plant can bear the fruit, it is sufficiently woody at the stem base into the fruit tissue. The woody part should be removed before further processing. The cross section shows a yellow-red, fine marbling. The beef tomato tastes very fruity and pleasantly sweet.

Like all tomato cultivars, this is edible raw and cooked. Tomatoes are one of the most widely used fruits in the world, especially in stews, as cold (ketchup) and hot sauces, and are even used sometimes in jam, as juice (e.g. sangrita) and in cocktails (Bloody Mary). As tomato paste they are used as thickeners and seasonings. Especially their content of lycopene (only in red tomatoes) and many other vitamins makes them valuable food plants.

• Edible Fruits
• Type of Fruit Berry
• Culinary Group Fruit vegetable
• Taste Umami Sweet
• Trivial Names (cultivar) Ananas-Tomate, Pineapple Tomato
• Trivial Names (tomatoes in general) Paradeiser, Paradeisapfel, Paradiesapfel, Liebesapfel, Goldapfel, Pomodoro, Tomato
• Size 12 cm (first fruit) 8 cm (second fruit)
• Taxonomy Solanaceae (Nightshade family) Solanum lycopersicum 'Pinapple'
• Origin (tomatoes) North-America: Southeast (Map)
• Donated by Gaby Försterling 2017