Tomatoes and Formalin? Exploring Kamatis Tagalog (an alleged Philippine variety)
I know I’ve been claiming that tomatoes are not paleolithic things. And that tomatoes are nightshades and may cause inflammation. That some people are allergic to tomatoes, that I did my tomato experiments, and the last experiment I did with tomatoes, salt and pepper was killing me after 7 days. Now comes a new theory. Maybe I was being poisoned by formalin preservatives in tomatoes?
Lately in the markets I’ve been coming across a different kind of tomato, they call it “kamatis tagalog” or a native Philippine tomato. The old timers say Imelda Marcos in the 1970s promoted this variety of tomatoes. The seller’s marketing line for these tomatoes is that these native Philippine tomatoes are organic. That they are not soaked or stored in formalin.
Exposing the soaking of regular tomatoes in formalin. So maybe that’s just it huh? Unless you trust your farmer, the regular tomato in the markets is soaked and stored in formalin. A preservative, a poison. Not meant for human consumption.
So back to last year’s tomato experiments on myself, was it the formalin in the tomatoes that were killing me? Maybe it is time to do new tomato experiments!
Tomatoes are very useful healing foods as Aajonus Vonderplanitz suggests. That is if you aren’t allergic to them, and if they aren’t soaked in formalin, and maybe they should be organic, and it may also depend on the variety.