We’re all about combining potatoes and tomatoes together when cooking — but the development of a new plant, the TomTato, has us a little weirded out. The TomTato, now available in the U.K., is a tomato and potato plant in one. Both the tomatoes and potatoes ripen at the same time.
Thompson & Morgan, the horticulture company behind the TomTato, says the the tomatoes are sweeter than most supermarket varieties. The TomTato is not genetically modified — it is a grafted plant, meaning that tissue from one plant is attached to tissue from another.
A different version called the Potato Tom, made by another company, is available in New Zealand starting in October.
The TomTato lasts only one season.
