To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Toma Bellas
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 21:34:56 -0500
Thanks for the information, Mark. The fact that Toma Bellas are really
peppers is interesting.
Doreen Howard
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Lee" <markl@nytec.com>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 12:16 PM
Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Toma Bellas
> I'm not a produce expert, but I found the following via Google...
>
> The European standard for sweet peppers identifies 4 catagories of shapes:
> elongated (pointed)
> square (blunt)
> square tapering (peg top)
> flat (tomato pepper).
>
> Tomato peppers in the US are marketed as "Toma Bellas".
> These are not a cross between tomatoes and peppers, but rather a kind of
> sweet pepper.
> -Mark Lee, Seattle, zone 7B/8A
>