Of the slicer varieties it will be those with the highest brix rating. Persimmon is one that comes to mind as is Brandywine Yellow.

But regardless of the variety, sweetness is a personal taste buds issue. What is sweet to one person can easily be acidic tasting to another.

Dave

There are many variables the enter into taste, including the weather in any given season, how the plants are grown, as to sprawling, staking, caging, etc, what the soil is like, what amendments were used and if so which ones and how much.

If you look at any ONE variety listed in the SSE Yearbooks you'll usually see a range of comments having to do with taste.

I can say that this or that variety tastes sweet, and some others can detect no sweetness at all with that variety..

The only way to know if a variety has sweet fruits is to grow the variety itself using the conditions that exist where you are as to all the variables I mentiooned.

Not even a high Brix ( soluable sugar content) is a definitive indication of how sweet a variety is to all that grow that variety, again, b'c of all the other variables.

Hope that helps,

Carolyn

What does make a tomato sweet ? It is a complex issue to me. But generally I think the genetics is the number one factor. Then we rarely eat tomato off the wine. We often add, vinegar, salt, pepper, oil to it. You like it sweet ? sprinkle a pinch of sugar on it , instead of vinegar.
I personally, like a naturally sweet n sour juice dripping tomato.

As I mentioned previously, the high correlation of flavor to just those 2 attributes (among thousands) should set the stage to more widespread testing and future charts. While I agree that different people perceive flavor differently and that many variables are indicated there is high probability that tomato flavor will be vastly improved in future hybrids as it has been to a limited degree in the past.

Most hearts and bi-colors that I've trialed are sweet, to me. More so than any other "kind" of tomato (cherries, globes, beefsteaks, etc...), although many of those kinds can also be sweet.

Gary

I've heard the bi-colors and orange tomatoes are the sweetest,so next year I am going to grow several more varieties. We only like the sweet tomatoes for our sandwiches:)

I was sent seeds for Orange Strawberry, which appeared as a stray seed in a pack of the tomato variety Pineapple.

The same person had also sent me seeds for what she named German Red Strawberry, which was a family heirloom and was from Germany.

Someone somewhere decided that Orange Strawberry was also from Germany and changed the original name.

Not good.

Link below and Carolyn no longer lives in Latham,just as Dorothy no longer lives in Kansas.LOL

Carolyn

JCT,

I was just scrolling through a massive list of tomatoes and when I check-marked "heart" for tomato shape, several of them listed them as "sweet" tasting! Here's a link:

http://tatianastomatobase.com/seed-catalog/html/

Below I've given a clickable list of just heart ones which one can get off the first page of Tania's data base, as well as lists for different shapes, colors, and so much more.

As I think I've said before the only way someone will know if a variety is sweet is for that person to grow it.

I thought I'd listed some heart varieties that I thought were sweet but I guess I didn't. Again,it would be just me making a list as to what I personally thought was sweet.

Carolyn

Growing in very different parts of the country, and much preferring sweetness over acidity, I've always found Pink Girl, Lemon Boy, Clear Pink Early, and Pineapple to be larger tomatoes that deliver the sort of sweet taste I like. Your taste buds may differ, but I think any of these might be worth trying.