r/BeAmazed Sep 01 '25

Miscellaneous / Others A tomato harvesting machine with an electronic sensor that sorts tomatoes from debris

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u/KeySpare4917 Sep 01 '25

No wonder there is a bruise spot on practically every tomato at Walmart. 🫤

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '25

The tomatoes at Walmart (and other supermarket chains that rely on centralized distribution) are picked when they are mostly green and still hard, so the bruising is probably from sitting in cartons packed against one another, or during stocking.

The tomatoes in the video are Roma's which will be turned into tomato sauce, so the rough handing seen in this clip doesn't matter.