for distribution in the United States in September of 2022. Difference from black cultivars Many other tomato cultivars have names indicative of their dark color, such as Black Krim and Cherokee purple. These colours come from an altogether different process, whereby the chlorophyll is not efficiently degraded resulting in the accumulation of the pigment pheophytin in the fruit. This pigment combined with other carotenoids in the fruit, including beta-carotene and lycopene, produces a brown or black color. Additional images References Tomato cultivars Genetically modified organisms in agriculture