I use this in a recipe my cousin brought from Italy. She said "only Pomi," but I didn't believe her and tried another brand after the first time I cooked with Pomi. She was right. These chopped tomatoes are like using fresh tomatoes that I'd have to chop myself. There is no substitute. They stopped carrying this brand where I live. So I order it by the case from Amazon and am so grateful that I have a source for the spaghetti sauce I make that everyone loves!

We have been noticing that the tomatoes are oxidizing each time we open a container. The expiration date is not for another few months and we have to throw away an entire case of each of the strained and the chopped ones because they have come to the point where they taste VERY acidic and almost smoked. That's nearly eighty bucks in the garbage!

100% tomatoes
No salt/sodium
No sugar
No preservatives
No chemicals in packaging.

You want tomatoes? You get tomatoes with Pomi. And nothing BUT tomatoes. I use these for lots of recipes, but my favorite quick dinner is to take half a package of the Pomi chopped tomatoes, mix in a little Italian seasoning, then dump over 2 chicken breasts. Top with some chopped Spanish olives, then bake until the chicken is done.

If you HAVE to watch sodium in your diet for health reasons, then you really need to look at those "low sodium" canned tomatoes versus the Pomi - you'll quickly realize that the canners of American tomatoes have a very different take on "low sodium" to Pomi's Italian approach! (HINT: almost zero sodium in Pomi - why don't you save your daily sodium allowance for something else because you can cook all your favorite recipes using tomatoes without any added sodium with Pomi).

These taste great.

However what I love the MOST is thefact that the ingredients are "tomatoes"

YEAH!!!! THat's how food should be, especially the basics. Simple, pure, uncluttered with preservatives and un-needed additives or colouring.

The sodium in the canned tomatoes I was purchasing before switching to these Pomi tomatoes was scary. Something like 14% per serving. Which isn't a big deal but not as lovely as PURE tomoatoes with ZERO percent sodium. Meaning I can cook more freely and use the salt that I want.

Really cool. I am so glad I found these.

I actually purchased them in my local grocery store the first time and then of course meandered over to Amazon to buy in bulk where they're a much MUCH better deal than in store here.

Also like that the packaging is BPA free....

It's weird isn't it that we are at a point in time when we have to monitor food from all these non-food extras...food should be food...grrr...anyways...

Next best thing to fresh tomatoes. :)

The price as I write this review is amazing! I bought these at $3.49 and bought 5 of them. Even though they are not in a can my order had a lot of drinks in it and the tomatoes come in milk like carton. Most of mine were smashed down to the point they could not even stand.

I do love that they do not have a metallic taste to them. I was not as impressed with them since I had a lot of tomatoes that were not ripe yet or had the top part on it. They are great to cook with but I found myself picking out a lot of bad pieces.

Healthy and handy and for he price they are at right now, you might want to pick up a few!