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A widely popular snack and ingredient for everyday cooking, what we know today as cherry tomatoes got their start as a tomato variety bred in the 1970s by British and Israeli scientists. Now, these flavorful tomatoes are eaten across the globe. You can find cherry tomatoes throughout the year and eat them either raw or cooked.

Cherry tomatoes have a sweet, nuanced flavor. In addition to being ideal tomatoes to eat raw (you can't go wrong by throwing cherry tomatoes in a salad), they prove an invaluable ingredient for roasting, making quick sauces, or adding to kebabs. They're also perfect to hollow out for stuffed tomato recipes.

The small tomato variety gets its name from its shape, which looks a lot like a cherry. You can find cherry tomatoes sold both on and off the vine. Cherry tomatoes range in size from a little smaller than cherries to around twice that size. They're most commonly red, but you can also find green, orange, yellow, and almost black cherry tomatoes.

Prized for their thin skin and juiciness, cherry tomatoes deliver a signature pop in your mouth when you eat them. You don't need to peel, seed, or chop cherry tomatoes to enjoy them. Whole, raw tomatoes make for a delicious snack. They're best in the summer months, but cherry tomatoes also grow well in greenhouses while maintaining their texture and flavor thanks to their small size. That makes cherry tomatoes an affordable product you can eat whenever you're in the mood.

Just rinse cherry tomatoes well and then drain or pat them dry carefully to prepare them. Then, you can use cherry tomatoes whole, cut them in half, or chop them up. Eating these tomatoes raw will preserve their sweet juiciness and texture, so they're ideal in salads, salsas, or as part of vegetable platters. They're also a great addition to summertime pasta dishes, either raw or cooked. When you cook cherry tomatoes, they lose some freshness but gain a deeper, richer flavor.

Ripe tomatoes have glossy, slightly shiny surfaces and fairly deep coloring. The color should also be mostly uniform, so if one side of the tomato is deep red or yellow, but the other is green, that tomato isn't yet ready. A ripe tomato's skin will give slightly and feel tender, but not soft. Like all tomatoes, ripe cherry tomatoes also give off a fresh, pleasant tomato scent. Unripe tomatoes don't really have a scent. Stay away from tomatoes with mold, wrinkles, or dark spots. Overall, you should look for cherry tomatoes with firm, bright skin, and a fresh scent.

Cherry tomatoes are delicate and have a relatively short shelf life. To maintain the best flavor, keep your cherry tomatoes at room temperature. Putting cherry tomatoes in the refrigerator can result in a mealy texture, and these tomatoes don't freeze well. However, if you have completely ripe cherry tomatoes and your house is warm, you can put them in the refrigerator for up to two days to stop them from getting too ripe. If you store cherry tomatoes at room temperature, they'll usually keep for up to three days.