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most popular thanksgiving side dish:A continuous challenge for a seed company is how long it takes to develop a new variety. The shorter the time, the better. If research can decrease development time from 10 years to 5 years, it is a huge benefit. Five extra years for sales is a big advantage for a company.Important areas of research in vegetable variety development focus on flavor, color, shelf-life, disease resistance and nutritional features. Many vegetables, such as tomatoes, melons, beans and sweet corn are purchased for flavor. If there is a special or unique flavor, so much the better, Consumers look for the old-fashioned tomato flavor, sweet refreshing flavor of muskmelon or watermelon and rich bean flavor in snap or lima beans.
Some vegetables are purchased for nutritional content. Vitamin and fiber content are important. If a vegetable is rich in nutrition and tastes good, it becomes a big winner. The best tasting tomato is the small cherry tomato. They tend to be extra sweet with great flavor. I often eat them off the vine like candy snacks.Most large supermarkets fail to identify some vegetable and fruit varieties. Exceptions are apples, pears, cherries, oranges and white potatoes. The best place to find variety identification is at a local or farm market or orchard. It’s a routine practice to list the variety name on most vegetables and fruits.Last summer six sweet bell peppers were grown. Varieties were three each of Calwonder (green to red) and Golden Calwonder (green to yellow). Both are open pollinated (nonhybrid) varieties. This was the first time in many years no hybrid bells were grown.