Are green tomato's inedible un-rippened fruit or an altogether different variety

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   Joe Cookposted 12 years ago

   Are green tomato's inedible un-rippened fruit or an altogether different variety of tomato?

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   MickSposted 12 years ago

   They are unrippened fruit, they ain't inedible, use them for
   making chutney, or use them in other forms of cooking.

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      DzyMsLizzyposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      They are edible, as in not harmful, but they sure don't taste very good raw off the vine.  That's why they are used in cooking, which both softens them and transforms the flavor.

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   lainelongfellowposted 12 years ago

   They are unripe fruit.  You can slice, bread and fry them to make friend green tomatoes.  Tomatillos are edible but look like a little green tomato in a husk.

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   Insane Mundaneposted 12 years ago

   Fried Green Tomatoes are really tasty...  I like to bread & fry the ones that are just starting to change their color, the best, but the plain green ones work well.  This year, I favored the Green Roma Tomatoes for doing such things, and even wrote a Hub about it a while back; check it out...  http://insanemundane.hubpages.com/hub/F … a-Tomatoes
   
   Cheers!

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   mvillecatposted 12 years ago

   They are wonderful fried with red sweet tomato relish. You can also use them in chutney. Great stuff!

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   Luxorposted 12 years ago

   They're regular old tomatoes that haven't ripened and turned red yet. However, they're very much edible; fried green tomatoes is a very popular dish.
   
   Unripened, green tomatoes are not to be confused with tomatillos which look similar but are a different fruit altogether.

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   backporchstoriesposted 12 years ago

   Ahhh....the wonderful green tomato!  Though there are tomatios, which are green and used in lot of Spanish and Italian dishes, it is the regular red tomato before it ripens that is the delicious green tomato.  Not only can you use these green tomatoes in chutney and fired with eggs and crackers, but it is awesome mixed with apples in an apple pie.  They taste sweet and fruity and are certainly edible!

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   ElleBeeposted 12 years ago

   Depends.  There are varieties of tomatoes which can (or should) be eaten green, and varieties in which green would simply indicate not yet ripe.  At least that's what I've always thought. Doesn't mean I'm right!

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   Patty Inglish, MSposted 11 years ago

   Ohio is a tomato state, but so are others - like California. We love red tomatoes, even rich black types, but enjoy green ones while thinking they are less healthy than their ripe siblings.  Not so! read more

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