Tesco launches sweeter tomato

Tesco has launched a tomato it describes as being "as sweet as a peach".

The new Sugardrop variety is aimed at sweet toothed customers and children who find standard tomatoes too sharp.

The Spanish-grown Sugardrop is a hybrid of two other tomato varieties and has around three times the natural sugar content of a standard tomato.
 

Tesco tomato buyer Ashleigh McWilliams said creating the Sugardrop was a long process which involved finding tomato seeds that could be cross-pollinated to produce a new strain.
 

Growers carried out trials for two years involving 3,000 different tomato types before deciding on the new variety.