Claim · model-written summary
Taste preference also favored tomatoes given organic fertilizer with extra sulfur.
- Taxon
- tomatoes
Solanum lycopersicume0 - Treatment
- organic fertilizer with extra sulfure0
- Outcome
- Preference in tastee0
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Verbatim
e0“Preference in taste was given to the tomatoes from plants fertilized with the nitrate‐dominated nutrient solution and to those given organic fertilizer with extra sulfur”
Title
Impact of organic and inorganic fertilizers on yield, taste, and nutritional quality of tomatoes
Anuschka Heeb; Bengt Lundegårdh; Geoffrey Savage; et al. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science 2006. doi:10.1002/jpln.200520553
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Organic fertilizer gave significantly lower red tomato yields than mineral fertilizer.
- Intervention effect At final harvest, green tomato yields with organic fertilizer and extra sulfur were similar to specified mineral treatments.
- Observation Organic fertilizer released nutrients more slowly than mineral fertilizer.
- Mechanism Organic fertilizer lowered leaf sulfur and phosphorus concentration, limiting tomato growth and yield.
- Association Fruit and leaf composition and taste tests gave no conclusive relation between sugar, acid, macronutrients and perceived taste.
- Intervention effect Mineral fertilizer produced higher fruit sugar content.
- Intervention effect Organic fertilizer produced higher fruit acid content.
- Observation Taste preference favored tomatoes given nitrate-dominated nutrient solution.
- Association Reduced tomato growth did not improve taste.
- Recommendation The authors conclude appropriate nutrient supply is crucial to obtain high yield and good taste.