Picture it: slicing into a perfectly red tomato from your garden, expecting to find juicy flesh and ordinary seeds. Instead, you discover dozens of tiny white sprouts twisting through the inside, almost as though the tomato is growing an entirely new plant within itself. Your first thought might be that something has gone terribly wrong.
Are those worms? Has the tomato become infected with a strange disease? Is it still safe to eat? The explanation is actually much more fascinating.
