Roma Tomato

The Roma tomato or sometimes more commonly known as the Italian plum tomato are the tomato mostly used in tomato sauce recipes. This breed of tomato tends to have more meat then other varieties of plum tomato and has a lower water content making the meat a little more dense. In addition they contain less seeds then most variety tomato the appeal to foodie's across the world as the ideal tomato for tomato sauces, stews, canned tomatoes and even the tomato of choice for sun dried tomatoes.

You'll find this pair shaped tomato in deep red as well as yellow, orange and purple shades. The size is typically two to three inches in length. They weigh two to four ounces each, depending on the variety and there are about 36 varieties of this type of tomato alone based on roma-tomato.com.

Here are the varieties of Roma Tomato:

• Alla Roma
• Amish Market Roma
• CalRoma Hybrid
• Cherry Roma tomato
• Golden Roma
• Jumbo Roma
• Kelsey Yellow Roma
• La Roma
• La Roma II Hybrid
• Martino's Roma
• Missouri Roma
• Northern Roma
• Nova Roma
• Orange Roma
• Pink Roma
• Phil Tolli's Roma
• Plum Dandy Roma
• Rio Grande Roma
• Roma OG
• Roma Gigante
• Roma Long
• Roma Macero
• Roma Napoli
• Roma Paste
• Roma Puree
• Roma Rhoda
• Roma Ukrainian
• Roma VF
• Romalina Hybrid
• Russia Big Roma
• Speckled Roman
• Striped Roma
• Super Roma
• Sweet Orange Roma
• Viva Italia Roma Hybrid
• Window Box Roma
• Yellow Roma

The La Roma and Roma Napoli are the varieties we depend on for canning, making sauce and yes even ketchup.