Norman Swan

It's a Chinese study that identified two genes that put a brake on sugar production in tomatoes during ripening.

But, I mean, this is a complicated story.

But, in fact, tomatoes in ancient times were smaller than they are today and probably sweeter.

And the tomatoes today are less sweet because, ask your granny, they were much nicer in the older days.

They were certainly much nicer in Scotland, I have to say, than they are in Australia.

And that was associated with sweetness.

So there may well be something about ancient varieties having a bit more sugar in them.

Yeah, I think the bottom line of this work in China, if indeed it's borne out, is that the advantage would be that with this genetic modification, it's not going to kill you with cancer or diabetes.

It's probably just going to encourage you to eat more fruit in the form of tomatoes.

Which is why we died at 28.

And I think the key is, it goes back to our previous, what's that rational exercise, what time of day is best?

The time of day that's best is the time of day that you can do exercise.

There might be some benefits of the morning or the evening for certain things, but actually just doing the exercise and not overthinking your fruit and vegetables, just eating them.

And it's going to be better than not eating them.

Yeah, and I find those sort of antique tomatoes that you get at the grocers a bit mushy.

The heritage breeds.

A bit mushy.

Yeah.

Yeah, I like the engineered ones.

Give me those.