Tomatoes are one of the most popular, versatile and widely grown fruits.
Yet by most they are considered a vegetable. Seed catalogues devote a great deal of space advertizing the great range of tomato varieties. The popularity of the tomato has been a stimulus for development of all the new varieties and all the different shapes, sizes and colours that early Mexican Indians would have difficulty recognizing. It is highly likely that the tomato is Canada's most popular garden crop. The tomato originated in the Andean region of South America, mainly Ecuador and Peru, but its domestication took place in Mexico and Central America.