Out of flavour: why tomatoes have lost their taste

After exhaustive studies, an international team of scientists has worked out why tomatoes don't taste like they used to

An international team of scientists claims finally to have cracked one of the most common consumer conundrums: why don't tomatoes taste like they used to?

After conducting exhaustive taste tests of 100 tomato varieties and sequencing the genomes of nearly 400 varieties, researchers have found the 13 volatile compounds that give a tomato its inherent flavour.