Canned Diced Tomatoes
IQG Foods produces canned diced tomatoes in Egypt, cut to a uniform cube and packed in tomato juice, in tin from 400 g to A10. The fruit is peeled, diced and filled firm, then sterilised with a pinch of salt and nothing else. The cubes hold their edges through cooking rather than breaking down, which is what the format is bought for.
Ingredients
Diced tomatoes
Tomato juice
Salt
Additives
Preservatives
Added sugar
Suitable For
Available Package & Sizes
400 g
800 g
A9
A10
Nutritional Facts
Energy
Fat
of which saturates
Carbohydrate
of which sugars
Protein
Salt
Cut to Hold
A diced tomato is cut to a set cube and selected to stay that way. The variety, the ripeness at harvest and the calcium level in the fill all work toward one thing: a piece that still has edges after it has been cooked.
That is the whole point of the format. Chopped tomato softens and merges into a sauce, which is right for a pasta base. Diced holds separate, which is right when the tomato is meant to be an ingredient the eater can see and bite rather than a background.
The cube arrives firm and leaves firm. In a salsa it stays a cube in the jar; in a chilli it stays a cube on the plate after an hour on the heat. A chopped tomato in the same pot would be gone.
Built for Industrial Lines
Diced tomato is a manufacturer’s format more than a kitchen one. Salsa plants, chilli and ready meal producers, pizza topping lines and salad bar suppliers all buy it because a uniform cube behaves predictably in a dosing system. A sauce with irregular pieces varies from pack to pack; a cube does not.
That is also why it ships mostly in A9 and A10. Those tins open straight into a production vessel, and the fill weight per tin is consistent enough to work out a recipe from.
There is no added salt, no starch, no colouring and no acidity regulator in the can. For a plant that seasons its own formulation, a neutral base matters more than a finished one.
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