Colder winter produced stomach-churning cherry tomatoes in South Korea

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Experts said a high concentration of tomatine, which thrives at low-temperatures, has been found in certain products. Read more at straitstimes.com.

SEOUL - Following an increasing number of reports of vomiting and stomach pain after consuming cherry tomatoes, local health and agriculture authorities on Thursday pointed to a substance in tomatoes called tomatine as the main cause of the gastric distress.

The South Chungcheong Province Agricultural Research and Extension Services announced that a certain variety of cherry tomatoes called HS2106 is likely to contain an unusually high level of tomatine as the average temperature of late January - which reached -7.2 deg C on Jan 25 - was three degrees lower than the average year.

“My daughter threw up a few hours after she ate cherry tomatoes at school. She is better now. I thought she had food poisoning,” one user wrote. Meanwhile, the HS2106 cherry tomatoes were produced by three farms in South Chungcheong Province. One of them discarded all the products to prevent them from circulating in the market.

 

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