- variety of colours and sizes - associate - savory dishes - originated - cultivated - consumed - ideal for snacking - patience - sprouts - micro-environment - seedlings - sunlight - fertilizer - idioms and expressions What is a tomato? The taste, the types, the sizes, the colours? How are they prepared before consuming? Step by step, how to plant them. Add an idiom or proverb.       Tomatoes, the mildly sweet and sour, juicy berries that come in a variety of colours and sizes that we all know. Most would associate it as a vegetable as it is low in fructose and commonly used in cooking savory dishes; however, botanically, it is actually a fruit because it develops from the flower of a plant and contains seeds.       Tomatoes originated in the Andes region of South America and were cultivated in Mexico by the ancient Aztecs and Mayans. The first cultivated tomato was likely small and yellow. The Spanish brought tomatoes back to Europe in the ...