That says that picking them green is still worse than ripening on the plant, but the ethylene is not the reason.
Relevant section:
Consider four types of tomatoes:
Fully “table ripened” while on the plant.
Picked “mature green” and ripened naturally.
Picked “mature green” and ripened with ethylene.
Picked “immature green” and ripened however.
It’s abundantly clear that type 1 tomatoes are the best (more nutritious and better-tasting) and type 4 tomatoes are the worst. However, as we’ll see below, there seems to be almost no difference between type 2 and type 3 tomatoes.
This is pretty apparent from anyone who has a garden. I’ve planted GMO and organic, and their taste is pretty much always dependent on when you take them off the vine.
Unfortunately last year we had a plague of grass hoppers who would devour my tomatoes as soon as they were ripe, so we ended up picking them early. Both the GMO and heirloom were about equally shitty. Though it seemed the GMO took a bit longer to ripen off the vine.
Here’s a great article, with sources, highlighting why the tomato ethylene argument is almost pure BS:
https://dynomight.net/tomatoes/
That says that picking them green is still worse than ripening on the plant, but the ethylene is not the reason.
Relevant section:
Consider four types of tomatoes:
It’s abundantly clear that type 1 tomatoes are the best (more nutritious and better-tasting) and type 4 tomatoes are the worst. However, as we’ll see below, there seems to be almost no difference between type 2 and type 3 tomatoes.
This is pretty apparent from anyone who has a garden. I’ve planted GMO and organic, and their taste is pretty much always dependent on when you take them off the vine.
Unfortunately last year we had a plague of grass hoppers who would devour my tomatoes as soon as they were ripe, so we ended up picking them early. Both the GMO and heirloom were about equally shitty. Though it seemed the GMO took a bit longer to ripen off the vine.
There are zero GMO tomato varieties on the market. The only ones that exist are in the laboratory.
Do you mean Hybrid tomatoes? That is very different.