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Before we answer our guiding question—what’s the difference between beefsteak, cherry, grape, heirloom, and plumThere are two major categories of tomatoes:The tomatoes you’ll find year-round in the grocery store are hybrids, which means that humans have cultivated and bred them for specific characteristics. Not all hybrids are bad, but the grocery-store ones usually are; they’re bred for resistance to diseases, firm flesh, thick skin, and storage potential, rather than, say, flavor.
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