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5 Best Cherry Tomatoes

These varieties pop with flavor—toss them in salads or savor them as a snack.

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‘SunSugar’

For many years, ‘Sweet 100’ has been the standard by which all other cherry tomatoes are measured. But that hasn’t stopped breeders from trying to develop new and better varieties. In a tasting conducted by our Garden and Food staff, ‘SunSugar’ edged out ‘Sun Gold’ for first place.

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‘Sun Gold’

This vigorous plant produces long clusters of orange tomatoes with “fruity and sweet” flavor, according to our judges.

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‘Sugar Snack’

‘Sugar Snack’ yields lots of fruit with great tomato flavor.

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‘Supersweet 100’

This prolific plant bearing “juicy, sweet” fruit is similar to ‘Sweet 100’ but resists diseases.

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‘Sweet 100’

Very vigorous, this plant is a prolific producer of crack-prone fruit with good tomato flavor.