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No, tomatoes are not in the Bible. The tomato comes from the Americas. Its wild relatives grow along the coast from Ecuador to northern Chile, and a Spanish friar recorded about 1577 that the Aztecs of Mexico grew many kinds. It reached Europe only in the sixteenth century, long after the last book of Scripture was written. Still, the first European to describe a tomato reached for a plant the Bible knows well. In 1544 the Italian physician Pietro Andrea…