The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition works with governments and other stakeholders to ensure the supply and increase the demand for the nutritious tomato. As well as on creating incentives and modifying rules and regulations to encourage production and consumption of nutritious and safe foods, we seek to understand, and tackle barriers faced by small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The goal? To ensure that nutritious foods - like tomatoes - are available, affordable, desirable, and convenient, and especially for low-income populations.
Tomatoes are the world’s most popular vegetable. With some 182M tonnes produced globally in 2017, it represents 17% of all vegetables produced, ahead of the next most popular – onions, which come in at 9%.
In countries where the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) main offices are located, tomatoes vary in abundance - with the average supply from approximately one tenth of a medium-sized (60g) tomato per person per week in Ethiopia, to four medium-sized tomatoes per person per week in India, and up to 12 medium-sized tomatoes per person per week in the US.
To ensure that nutritious foods - like tomatoes - are available, affordable, desirable, and convenient, and especially for low-income populations. Tomatoes are the world's most popular vegetable.
They're great raw in a salad or as a crudité. No wonder the carrot is the second most popular vegetable in the world after the potato—not bad for a plant which, according to the Oxford Companion to Food, “had an unpromising origin.” It is, after all, merely a refined version of a common weed—Queen Anne's lace.
Tomatoes are botanically defined as fruits because they form from a flower and contain seeds. Still, they're most often utilized like a vegetable in cooking.
The most frequently consumed vegetables by adults were potatoes and salad. Vegetables were reported least often by Hispanics, and most often by Non-Hispanic Asians and Non-Hispanic whites. Percentages who consumed vegetables increased with income.
Brinjal, also referred to as Bagan, is a popular vegetable in vegetarian type of dishes and non-vegetarian types of cuisine. The brinjal was given the title of King of Vegetables because of its astonishingly awesome purple covering, and also the juicy and rich nutritional values in them.
When it comes to the world as a whole, though, there's one fruit that stands above all the rest — and it doesn't even grow on a tree! Which fruit is at the top? The banana, of course! Over 100 billion bananas are consumed worldwide each year.
The most eaten fruit in the world is tomatoes. Tomato is the edible berry of the plant Solanum lycopersicum. A tomato is 95% water, 4% carbohydrates, and less than 1% of fat and protein.
The tomato is the most popular vegetable in the United States, after potatoes, according to a report from the Department of Agriculture. Tomatoes are considered a vegetable for the purposes of this report, despite the fact that many people consider them to be fruits.
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