Infact the Festival organizers test each product that takes part in the competition with specific technologies that are able to reconstruct the DNA of the vegetable to understand if some too clever farmers genetically modify them so their abnormal sizes aren’t a gift of nature or of farmer’s work and costancy but the path has been made easier by tricks. Infact the fair celebrates the most incredible vegetable “creatures”, of enormous sizes compared to their normal average and for this reason their creators can win a final cash prize. But exibition can be seen not only as an occasion of entertainment because, behind, there is great study and work, as well as a team of experts that have just to test the nature of products that are registered to take part in the competition. Expecially because there is a prize of 1000 dollars for the winner, who is able to produce the biggest vegetable, in absolutely natural way, and if his creation breaks the world record for category, the prize increases to 5 thousands dollars.
The director Nick Smith explained that “ the giant vegetables exibition is a moment of entertainment and curiosity, but at the same time it also has a much more serious aim, above all if we think that there is a substancial prize up for grabs”. He continues underlining that “ when farmers want to take part in the competition, they have to face up to a hard iter of checks established that they, showing their vegetable for the competition, are declaring that they have created the only vegetable of that size exisisting in that specific vegetable species”. Just last year, it was established a new world record for the biggest and the heviest tomato that ever existed, it turned the scales at 7,7 lb.
In this specific case, Gigantomo species is a plant that produces a red vegetable of big size, on average each vegetable turns the scales at 1,3 lb. Their pulp is very juicy and tasty and they are generally cultivated to produce tomato purée.
Source : http://www.meteoweb.eu
