What tomotoes in tinned Napolina

[nilly71]

The misses has just come home with shopping and said about the price of Napolina tomotoes, they are her favourite but have gone up in price.

Does anyone know what tomotoes are in the tin?

Neil

[nilly71]

[carolinej]

No idea, but I did read somewhere that someone took seeds from a tin of tomatoes and grew some lovely plants.

maybe worth a go.

cj :)

[Deb P]

I'm guessing it must be a San Marzano type plum tomato, but you could always email the company and ask them! Like Caroline, I'd also be tempted have a go at germinating some from the tin, worth a try.

[Baccy Man]

Napolina state the tomatoes used are grown in the Puglia region of Italy.
Based on what the World Processing Tomato Council (WPTC) says about tomato production in that area it can be narrowed down to 7 probable hybrid varieties as indicated in this quote from the WPTC website.

The Puglia region now only represents about 40% of the national production. It is an area where few factories have been set up, so tomatoes have to be transported by lorry to processing plants in Campania, 200 to 300 km away. The main production zone in Puglia is around Foggia, but processing tomatoes are also grown further south around Bari and Brindisi.
The Foggia area is a large plain with soils alternating between a predominance of clay and a predominance of sand. North of Foggia, tomatoes are mainly produced for paste, whereas in the south they are grown primarily for canned peeled tomatoes.
The main varieties grown for tomato paste are now almost exclusively hybrids : Perfect Peel, Snob, Isola, Alange, Amur.
For peeled tomatoes, only hybrids are now being used: Hypeel 244, Italpeel, Calroma, Logan, RedPeel, Inca, Ulisse.
In the Campania region, the traditional variety has been awarded the protected origin label: "pomodoro San Marzano dell'agro Sarnese Nocerino".

[nilly71]

Thanks all :)

I did save some seeds about a month ago, but she threw them away >:(

She bought some from the finest range and they contain San Marzano tomatoes.

I might give them a try.

Neil

[Hyacinth]

In Italy, my friends grew San Marzano for bottling, if that's any use?

[manicscousers]

we grew them for the first time, massive fruit, very few pips, make lovely sauce..still going now  :)

[nilly71]

we grew them for the first time, massive fruit, very few pips, make lovely sauce..still going now  :)

Did you save the seed from tinned tomotoes or a bought packet?

Neil

[manicscousers]

bought seeds from the eden project last year, cost a bomb, should've looked around  ;D

[cleo]

 I admit I have never been to Puglia-but I never ask what` s in the tin having seen acres of tomatoes grown around the industrial parts of Italy ;)

[hellohelenhere]

I think my biggest credit-crunch shock moment has been seeing the price of Napolina tomatoes in Morrisons, a couple of weeks ago - 98 blimming pence!! (that and the 75% rice in the price of Tilda Basmati...)

Thank goodness they're still 19 / 21p in Lidl. And pretty good too.