tetra-cis-lycopene

[seedcorn]

I have "Orange Beefheart". Don't know if that's Amish, but the reference cited by @heirloomgal lists it as similar to "Orange Oxheart". I'd be happy to send you seed, Seed. Just PM if you would like to try it.

Trying to find data on Orange Beefheart. Striking out so far.

 

[heirloomgal]

Interesting topic, I just saw a list of tomato varieties.

Table of Tomatoes Containing Tetra-cis-lycopene

Tetra-cis-lycopene is a highly beneficial bioavailable form of lycopene, and exhibits a golden-orange or tangerine tomato colour. But not all tomatoes with this colour contain tetra-cis-lycopene, as this colour can also be expressed by beta-carotene. Hence it is necessary to chemically analyse...

www.heritagefoodcrops.org.nz

Thank you for posting this @Phaedra Geiermann ! I was looking for this table! I found a site I found with the link to this, but the link was no longer functional so I gave up. This is a valuable list because orange tomatoes can be orange more so through high beta carotene, and how would a person know which one is which? (I initially thought that so long as the tomato was orange it was high in cis-lycopene.)

 

[heirloomgal]

Glad to see "Roughwood Golden Plum" on that list... which pretty much cements my decision to grow it next year. I've been dying to try making sauce from it.

 

[digitS']

Orange Beefheart

With quick Googling, all I come up with is a French and an Italian website translated into English with that term. Phaedra's link has information on an Orange Oxheart and Tomato Growers sells seed for one with the same name.

I've never grown any oxheart. Always seemed like sauce tomatoes, to me. I've grown precious few paste tomatoes .

Once again, I feel that I'm somewhat off the mark ...

Steve
who can't stop himself from being involved in a tomato conversation