This is not a discussion about FRESH tomatoes. Obviously fresh tomato variance is completely different.
This is about the fact that using a bottle of Mutti Passata you can have a decent veggie (possibly meaty too but I’m not on meatbook) pasta sauce on the table inside 15 mins because their sauce comes with rich depth of flavour.
Passata doesn’t come in cans for reasons that I don’t fully understand, only bottles or tetra pak cartons.
That’s not the point. The point is that whatever tomatoes you put in the can are fresh and come out of the tins fresh. It’s quite possible that Italian canned tomatoes make it to my kitchen fresher than the ones that come from our allotment, because it takes half an hour to walk home from the allotment.
But the point here is that all those jars/cans from Waitrose and M&S etc say proudly that they’re using Italian tomatoes as does the Lidl one. But they are substantially more tart and less rich in flavour than the ones Mutti provides in its cans and passata jars.