It may be a superfood, but how does Purple Tomato taste?

Every year dozens of new tomato varieties are introduced to gardeners, each with characteristics that are touted as being better than other tomatoes. The distinction from existing varieties is often minute, but this year there’s a new tomato that is truly different from all the others. It’s a GMO tomato that is available to home gardeners.

In fact, it’s the first GMO food crop available to home gardeners, period.

Called, somewhat underwhelmingly, just “Purple Tomato,” it is an indeterminant variety that produces deep purple fruit in about 70 days.