EPISODE · Feb 6, 2023 · 29 MIN
Way Off Track: Episode 2 - The Truth About Tomatoes
from Where the Weird Things Are · host Where the Weird Things Are
In this Way Off Track episode Thurlow tells Brittany the story of how Robert Gibbon Johnson exposed the truth about tomatoes, and it's a juicy one. Sources: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6412926/#:~:text=Tropane%20alkaloids%20(TA)%20are%20valuable,the%20Solanaceae%20and%20Erythroxylaceae%20families.The Story of Robert Gibbon Johnson and the Tomato, Salem County Historical Societyhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-the-tomato-was-feared-in-europe-for-more-than-200-years-863735/#:~:text=The%20tomato%20didn't%20get,contain%20toxins%20called%20tropane%20alkaloids.Music by Alena Smirnova: https://open.spotify.com/track/2qFfB2WYgJNvsTVLoo3ngF?si=305f46c547734686
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