🍅 Tomato

🍅 Tomato is one of the fruit in Unicode's Food & Drink group. In practice it comes up around food, fruit and vegetable.

🍅 works in messages, comments, captions and profile names. On SmileyZone it is filed under Food and Drink. It joined the standard with Emoji 0.6 in 2010, so support on current devices is reliable. Its code point is U+1F345.

• 🍅 on its own already flags the topic: food.
• Fits messages about food, fruit and vegetable.
• Often seen near 🥝 Kiwi Fruit, 🫐 Blueberries and 🫒 Olive.

The tomato comes from South America and was long thought poisonous in Europe, being a nightshade – it only became a staple in the nineteenth century. Italian cooking without tomatoes is therefore the historical norm, not the exception.

In theatre the thrown tomato has signalled displeasure since the nineteenth century, and online 🍅 accordingly marks a panning. In Buñol, hundreds of tonnes are hurled about each year at La Tomatina.

• 🍅🥭 – Tomato and Mango
• 🍅🥥 – Tomato with Coconut
• 🍅🥝 – Tomato plus Kiwi Fruit
• 🍅🍏 – Tomato and Green Apple
• 🍅🍎 – Tomato with Red Apple
• 🍅🍑 – Tomato plus Peach
• 🍅🫐 – Tomato and Blueberries
• 🍅🍓 – Tomato with Strawberry

Easy to mix up with 🥝 Kiwi Fruit, 🫐 Blueberries or 🫒 Olive. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.