FREE: 10 Must-Know Tomato Growing Tips Get The Guide

Read our affiliate disclosure here.

Is it normal for a tomato to have bright white seeds inside?

by F.L. Jacobs
(Dallas, TX, United States)

Q. I've lived many years and eaten many tomatoes but have never had one that was predominantly white inside - seeds, flesh, etc. Is this normal?

A. There are a couple of reasons tomato interiors may be white.


  1. White tomato varieties. Now growing more popular, white tomato varieties are white both inside and out.
  2. Tomatillos. A staple in Mexican food, tomatillos are related to tomatoes. They're about the size of a cherry tomato, with green exteriors and white interiors.
  3. Ripening. As green tomatoes move through the process of becoming red (or whatever color they are genetically wired to be), they progress through a whitening phase. Typical red tomatoes move from mature green to white to a tinge of pink to pink to red. White interiors with external color can mean the fruit is not fully ripe at the point at which you picked and cut it.
  4. Stink bugs. These pests insert their snouts underneath tomato skin. The enzyme they leave at the sting point turns that area of the tomato into liquid. The bug then drinks the liquid. Discolored areas appear on tomatoes where fluid is removed. They’re often white (sometimes yellowish or light green.)
  5. Gray wall. Tomatoes look splotchy, mottled or unevenly ripened. Outward grayish splotches on tomato surfaces may even collapse inward – thus the condition’s name. The inside of an affected tomato may also have whitish, grayish, yellowish, brownish, or greenish patches.
  6. A tomato's natural core. Some OP tomato varieties have white hard tissue found mainly near the stem end. Plant stress from water or heat as well as individual plant variation in non-hybrids can also contribute to white core in tomatoes.


    Good luck and happy gardening!
    Your friends at Tomato Dirt

Comments for Is it normal for a tomato to have bright white seeds inside?

Average Rating starstarstarstarstar

Click here to add your own comments

Sep 12, 2015
Rating
starstarstarstarstar
comments NEW
by: hinuder

Well, tomatoes play a vital role in our daily life even tomato ketchup is made up of chemicals rather than real tomatoes. I wrote many articles on essay writing websites here which would allow you to read real stories behind this truth. There are many companies working in same way to make ketchup with this technique and such ketchup is used in death burgers. Yes, we call it death burgers where open ketchup is used.

Jul 07, 2015
Rating
starstarstarstarstar
It Must Be Dry!! NEW
by: Melanie Harely

I don’t think it is good at all. If it has white bright seeds, it is because it is Beverly Diamonds Scam dry inside. And that is not supposed to happen. If that happens then it means that the tomato is affected from pesticides.

Click here to add your own comments

Join in and write your own page! It's easy to do. How? Simply click here to return to Tomato Problems.

As an Amazon Associate and Rakuten Advertising affiliate I earn from qualifying purchases.


SHARE THIS PAGE: