Originally Posted by
corky
One good thing about buying whole peeled tomatoes as opposed to diced is that whole canned tomatoes are packed when they are ate their ripest while chopped often has a mix of ripe & not so ripe so you might not get the best flavor.
I'm hoping the Italians don't gas their tomatoes with ethylene to get them to turn colour (hope that isn't permitted under San Marzano DOP, or better yet, Italian or preferably E.U. laws). The hard, tasteless but red and perfect tomatoes one gets in N. American supermarkets may be a result of ethylene gassing , or breeding, or both.