Mutti Finely Chopped Tomatoes Canned 400g - $1 @ Woolworths

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Mutti Finely Chopped Tomatoes Canned 400g - $1 @ Woolworths

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KayDat on 04/11/2020 - 11:34 woolworths.com.au (941 clicks)
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OzBargain's favourite canned tomato is on sale at Woolies. It's just the chopped stuff that's down to $1 this week, the Whole Peeled cans are $1.30.

People have often said that for canned tomatoes you should only buy whole peeled as the chopped stuff is of lower quality, but in Kenji Lopez-Alt's (of Serious Eats/Food Lab fame) recent videos he mentions that for a good brand of canned tomatoes, they tend to use the ripest tomatoes for the canned crushed variety so they actually taste better. I'd say worth taking a stab at for Mutti.

Groceries Canned Vegetables Italian Diced Tomatoes Mutti Tomato

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JHoliday on 04/11/2020 - 11:36

+1

These good for bolognaise?
- KayDat on 04/11/2020 - 11:37
  
  +4
  
  Yes
  - Mr Frodo on 04/11/2020 - 13:12
    
    +9
    
    Also good for bolognese
    - pauper on 04/11/2020 - 13:16
      
      Username does not check out
      - [Deactivated] on 04/11/2020 - 20:29
        
        +1
        
        @pauper: Ragu.
      - howieyo on 05/11/2020 - 02:10
        
        +1
        
        @pauper: Add some miso paste while cooking your bolognese to add that umami taste.
Associatedbirnie @ Woolworths on 04/11/2020 - 11:43

+2

I've tried em all
These are the best
- MilkMIlk on 04/11/2020 - 12:48
  
  Rosso Gargano is vastly superior to than Mutti in my personal opinion, but you can’t get that brand at supermarkets yet, only at specialist retailers.
  - Associatedbirnie @ Woolworths on 05/11/2020 - 12:49
    
    Never heard of this one. Quick google looks like $4.50 a can?
    Yikes
    Makes my 2xCan meatball dish double in price
    - MilkMIlk on 05/11/2020 - 12:55
      
      Its true, they sell for around $3 a can. but vastly superior, i recommend you try it
- stickyfingers on 04/11/2020 - 15:01
  
  nah nah nah. whole peeled are the best. these are the second best.
- Embaloo on 04/11/2020 - 19:12
  
  +1
  
  Didja try the Aussie Harris Farm ones - $.99 usually?
  They are lovely.
  - Associatedbirnie @ Woolworths on 05/11/2020 - 12:44
    
    No I havent.
    I'll try that next , thanks
sircable on 04/11/2020 - 11:50

+2

How do these compare to brands that use Australian grown tomatoes like Ardmona etc?
- darshu on 04/11/2020 - 11:55
  
  +1
  
  I feel these ones taste better and more reddish in colour.
  - Mr Frodo on 04/11/2020 - 13:13
    
    +5
    
    that's what she said
- Sleuth on 04/11/2020 - 12:04
  
  +2
  
  After doing some reading, I am more cautious about produce from Italy.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_of_death_(Italy)
  
  https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/30/world/europe/beneath-sout…
  
  https://phys.org/news/2013-12-mafia-toxic-dumping-poisons-it…
  - DrMilan on 04/11/2020 - 14:40
    
    +2
    
    im italian born and seeing this makes me sick to my bones, how can my people be doing this to their own!
    - GG57 on 04/11/2020 - 14:48
      
      +3
      
      I'm pretty sure something similar happens in almost all countries, unfortunately, to some extent.
      - freefall101 on 09/11/2020 - 18:05
        
        +1
        
        @GG57: Yup, we do it to foreign workers/backpackers all the time
        
        https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/aug/03/h…
        https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-15/backpacker-farm-worke…
    - bargainparker on 04/11/2020 - 17:22
      
      Did you read the date of those articles? What has happened in between then and now?
      - DrMilan on 05/11/2020 - 08:57
        
        @bargainparker: i would love to know.. that was 7 years ago
        
        bargainparker on 05/11/2020 - 14:06
        
        +3
        
        @DrMilan: If you want more news, so you don't feel sick to your bones just because of your country, find out what has Australian and British government been doing with their nuclear tests in Australia to their own people.
        
        Unfortunately what the public knows is only bits and pieces of what happens with big corporations and governments. And even more unfortunately how little humans care, even though they are affected directly and indirectly.
        
        And the life goes on.
        
        tonester on 05/11/2020 - 22:10
        
        +1
        
        @DrMilan: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/comment/9568203/redir
  - bargainparker on 04/11/2020 - 17:27
    
    +1
    
    If you look at the articles, it was some 7 years ago. I'd like to know what they have done regarding that in the meantime.
    
    On the other hand Italians must work for free and send tomatoes free of charge to Australia for it to be just $1. Something, something, fishy.
    - findingbargains on 04/11/2020 - 23:34
      
      Not Italians, but their 'slaves' pretty much do.
      https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/20/tomatoes-italy…
      - bargainparker on 05/11/2020 - 06:26
        
        @findingbargains: It's called collective responsibility, except that everyone thinks it's someone else's.
    - tonester on 05/11/2020 - 22:10
      
      https://www.ozbargain.com.au/comment/9568203/redir
      - bargainparker on 06/11/2020 - 00:45
        
        @tonester: "[We] would like to assure all … consumers that" we will do all we can to pretend we care about customers, but we will look for ways how to make more money regardless whether we poison or not.
        
        Unfortunately, most will just use what suits them most. Consumers are taken into account only when something comes to light. It is ironic, since those consumers are also those who also poison the environment or use other tactics to deceive consumers. And unfortunately, even when that happens not many care, so the life goes on.
        
        tonester on 06/11/2020 - 17:00
        
        @bargainparker: [We] would like to assure all … consumers that it will continue
- cruiseronroad on 04/11/2020 - 12:11
  
  +3
  
  I’d say on balance the Italian tomatoes taste better.
  
  I still buy the Australian ones regularly as otherwise they will disappear. There also concerns about Italy ‘dumping’ , Mafia connections amongst others
  - GeneralSkunk on 04/11/2020 - 12:29
    
    +6
    
    I was going to say exactly this. We buy Aussie canned tomatoes to support the industry, and the Italian ones are constantly on sale for heaps less, probably dumping.
    
    Also less food miles, carting the weight of a tin of tomatoes across the world doesn’t sit right with me when I can buy some from 250km away.
    
    However for passata, there’s not much option other than Italian so we buy that often.
  - MattyD on 04/11/2020 - 12:53
    
    +6
    
    We buy both and blend them for a "best of both worlds". For instance, if I'm making bolognaise sauce I'll put in a can of Mutti and one of an Aussie brand.
    
    You could argue that the 2 x Mutti would taste better (and I'd agree with you), but we still want to support Aussie as well.
    - Munki on 04/11/2020 - 13:25
      
      +1
      
      Bolognese. It's not the same as mayo, mate.
      - MattyD on 04/11/2020 - 14:02
        
        @Munki: noted.
      - Nuggets on 04/11/2020 - 17:18
        
        +5
        
        @Munki: Bolognaise is simply the French spelling of the word. Nothing wrong with spelling it that way.
- abc on 04/11/2020 - 14:28
  
  No corona?
- arcticmonkey on 05/11/2020 - 08:46
  
  Big fan of the Ardmona tomatoes. Plus I like to support Australian made products.
  
  https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/226849
  
  Looking at the exploitation link below, I'd rather not support people being abused or on starvation wages.
wordpickle on 04/11/2020 - 12:02

These are the best. They have such a vibrant, tomato-y taste. Love them.
mangobango on 04/11/2020 - 12:04

Finally back on special!

Thanks OP.
wintermadness on 04/11/2020 - 12:10

Up vote for mentioning whole vs chopped. I always reach for whole, but do buy Mutti regularly. Good stuff.
thatonethere on 04/11/2020 - 12:10

-5

These are great. I bought a heap by mistake for the first wave of coronavirus. Will stock up again for the third wave.
tonester on 04/11/2020 - 12:15

+1

the best tinned tomatoes: only the highest quality ripe tomatoes, only the heart of the tomato used (no yellow or green parts), cold-crushed/peeled, canned within hours of harvesting within 100miles
GeneralSkunk on 04/11/2020 - 12:30

-2

Maybe someone can chop up and tin the little dog next door that yaps, and label it Mutti.
dynaflow on 04/11/2020 - 12:33

Yes these are the best.I usually buy Whole Tomatoes but the Chopped are OK for a Sugo.
petry on 04/11/2020 - 12:39

+9

'Italian prosecutor Paola Guglielmi has named food giants Mutti and Conserve Italia as benefiting from “conditions of absolute exploitation” in the country’s hugely lucrative tomato industry, as part of an investigation into the death of a seasonal labourer.

Both Mutti and the Conserve Italia brand Cirio [see footnote] supply major UK supermarkets with premium tinned tomatoes and passata, and are named in court documents signed by Guglielmi.
Latest figures reveal more than 40 million people are living in slavery
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The case began with the death of Abdullah Muhammed, a 47-year-old legal Sudanese immigrant and father of two, who suffered a heart attack while working in the fields of Nardó, which sits on the heel of southern Italy, in July 2015. The allegation against his employer was that Muhammed’s life could have been saved if he had been allowed to go to hospital.'

Dumping, exploitation - right up woolies profiteering street…
- ripoffmerchant on 04/11/2020 - 13:13
  
  At least they are being Proseccocuted
  - Kikkoman56 on 04/11/2020 - 13:25
    
    No doubt they're trying to Soppressata these facts
    - petry on 04/11/2020 - 18:59
      
      ccc ccc ccc
    - kiitos on 04/11/2020 - 20:42
      
      -2
      
      The company was making a mozza-rella out of the poor bloke.
- Willco88 on 04/11/2020 - 13:56
  
  -1
  
  Whoops
- tonester on 05/11/2020 - 22:02
  
  -1
  
  why didn't you state the source of your quote, which is a 2017 article from The Guardian?
  
  they published an update last year, which includes:
  
  Mutti was so aghast at the damage to its reputation that it decided, in future, to purchase only mechanically harvested tomatoes in the south. (Mechanisation reduces the working crews to four or five people, bar the driver.)
  
  Cirio, which is owned by Conserve Italia, told the Guardian: “[We] would like to assure all … consumers that it will continue to process tomatoes supplied by its 14,000 cooperators through the collaboration of its 3,000 employees in complete respect of ethical principles and environmental sustainability.”
  
  Oxfam in their 2019 paper:
  
  In addition, Mutti:
  
  since 2017, requires farmers to sign a self-declaration with respect to their commitments related to labour used in production. This includes a commitment to there being ‘for all the workers [a] contract of employment and to be able to supply, upon request, the personal data of the hired workers, model UNILAV with proof of electronic submission, possible copy of the residence permit or request for renewal in case of non-EU workers;
  
  has included in contracts a price incentive to suppliers that undertake or maintain certain certifications (SMETA, Global GAP-Grasp etc.);
  
  from 2019, will require all farms to be certified under Global GAP-GRASP, entailing the use of third party audits.
  
  Mutti has introduced specific clause on mechanical harvest since 2014 with some exceptions for specifics weather conditions or specific tomatoes such as cherry tomatoes. In 2018 Mutti revise[d] the contract and requested mechanical harvest with no exceptions in order to reduce manual fruit picking to zero.
  
  Mutti further reports paying a price premium to farms compared to average market prices in order to incentivize higher quality standards.
  - petry on 06/11/2020 - 00:23
    
    -1
    
    'In the Italian deep south, where the mafia runs a parallel system of local rule with its own violent enforcement, the law holds little sway. Workplace inspectors are “very few and very corrupt”, according to Rocco Borgese, secretary of the FLAI-CGIL union (which represents agricultural workers) in Gioia Tauro, Calabria.
    
    In 2018, Global Slavery Index, an organisation providing a country-by-country ranking of the number of people currently enslaved, estimated there are 50,000 enslaved agricultural workers in Italy (the Index claims a total of 145,000 people are enslaved in the country as a whole, forced into prostitution and domestic services). The UN’s special rapporteur on slavery said last autumn that 400,000 agricultural workers in Italy are at risk of being exploited and almost 100,000 are forced to live in inhumane conditions……..
    
    Both UK and Italian supermarkets defend themselves by the blanket use of Certification Bodies (CBs): these are companies paid by supermarket suppliers to provide an ethical audit of their businesses, thereby offering assurance that their goods meet environmental or humanitarian standards.
    
    But CBs perform an arm’s-length box-ticking exercise, and rarely visit the farms. Besides, many farms are so remote that it is hard to launch a raid or surprise inspection. We spoke to one volunteer medic, working in the fields in Sicily, who says that to avoid any surprises, big farms have lookouts on mopeds at the ends of very long tracks. Some inspectors can be paid off, and those who do their job with integrity have been threatened with violence……
    
    Even some of the most powerful voices in the food industry express doubt that the certification process does anything to protect against gangmasters. “I wouldn’t swear by it,” Francesco Mutti, the CEO of one of Italy’s biggest and oldest tomato-processing firms, told us.
    
    Guardian June 2019 - so basically your fault finding is about as factual as Trump
    - Willco88 on 06/11/2020 - 00:26
      
      Who fkn cares
      - petry on 06/11/2020 - 00:27
        
        -1
        
        @Willco88: whoever was knowingly putting forward a factually incorrect ….
        
        but probably because woolies is a tad concerned about ' first disclosure under the Australian Modern Slavery Act. - another useless piece of legislation introduced under a useless government
      - bargainparker on 06/11/2020 - 00:49
        
        -1
        
        @Willco88: You would, if you happened to be one affected, whether as a slave or a consumer. You are lucky to live in Australia and yet you can't appreciate it.
    - tonester on 06/11/2020 - 17:00
      
      so basically your fault finding is about as factual as Trump
      
      sorry but to what are you referring?
      
      my comment was in response to you seeming to suggest that Mutti are involved in labour exploitation and included:
      
      Mutti was so aghast at the damage to its reputation that it decided, in future, to purchase only mechanically harvested tomatoes in the south.
      
      In 2018 Mutti revise[d] the contract and requested mechanical harvest with no exceptions in order to reduce manual fruit picking to zero.
      - petry on 06/11/2020 - 19:53
        
        @tonester: 'some of the most powerful voices in the food industry express doubt that the certification process does anything to protect against gangmasters. “I wouldn’t swear by it,”
        
        'Francesco Mutti, '
        
        the CEO of one of Italy’s biggest and oldest tomato-processing firms, told us.
        
        Guardian June 2019
        
        so basically your fault finding is about as factual as Trump.'
        
        and mechanical harvest is not a solution to slavery and even that may still not be completed as per Mutti.
        
        so just repeating assertions about minor future improvements is your panacea to slavery?
        
        you sure you're not associated in any way?
        
        tonester on 07/11/2020 - 08:00
        
        @petry: sorry but what exactly are you arguing about?
        
        certification
        
        Mutti
        
        slavery
        
        i have only mentioned Mutti of relevance
        
        petry on 07/11/2020 - 11:13
        
        @tonester: relevant to woolies simplistic slave chain requirements, and omitting the reality documented in the piece u very selectively used to put forward a distorted reality.
        
        tonester on 07/11/2020 - 13:35
        
        @petry: thanks - perhaps if you were more clear and concise, then unnecessary clarification and confusion could have been avoided
        
        considering that this is a Mutti deal, your concerns in terms of them should now be covered
        
        if you have more recent evidence/documentation, then feel free to share
        
        petry on 07/11/2020 - 13:38
        
        @tonester: I was clear however you were disingenuous in your very selective response
  - bargainparker on 06/11/2020 - 00:52
    
    Mutti further reports paying a price premium to farms compared to average market prices in order to incentivize higher quality standards.
    
    Yet, somehow it is still just $1.
    - tonester on 06/11/2020 - 17:00
      
      don't confuse the price producers pay farmers with what consumers pay retailers
      - bargainparker on 06/11/2020 - 17:18
        
        @tonester:
        
        don't confuse ~~the price~~ producers pay a few cents farmers with what consumers pay retailers
        
        Fixed it 👍
        
        7-Eleven happened, and the life still goes on, with deals posted here. Nothing changes. No, no surprises here either.
        
        tonester on 07/11/2020 - 08:15
        
        @bargainparker: sorry but not quite sure what your point is - price does not necessarily correlate with each cost
        
        bargainparker on 07/11/2020 - 13:40
        
        @tonester: Means slaves work for stale peanuts.
marc0polo on 04/11/2020 - 12:40

I wanted to grab some but Woolies Central Park (Sydney) doesn't have the full discount. $1.30 there.
MrOzbargain on 04/11/2020 - 13:14

+1

Fresh tomatoes preferred over tinned tomatoes after doctor told my mate one of the main reasons for kidney stones is tinned food particularly tomatoes but he also recommended to drink lots of light beer if you do use them to wash away stones when they are smaller and less likely to cause any pain, too long, 3 cents maybe
- Michael15286 on 04/11/2020 - 13:21
  
  Light beer helps with washing away kidney stones?
  - GG57 on 04/11/2020 - 13:32
    
    +1
    
    Drinking beer results in an increased volume of urine.
    I'm thinking that light beer has a similar effect, but without the alcohol at the same level, so probably just a healthier way to flush out the tank.
    - Michael15286 on 04/11/2020 - 13:34
      
      Ahh right, so basically if you drink plenty of water anyway you should be okay.
      - squanchy on 04/11/2020 - 13:54
        
        +2
        
        @Michael15286: No beer only. Dont take this away from me.
      - GG57 on 04/11/2020 - 14:29
        
        @Michael15286: Except water doesn't produce the same volume of urine, per ml of intake.
        Beer is more efficient.
        
        [Deactivated] on 04/11/2020 - 15:13
        
        @GG57: Where's extra urine coming from?
        
        GG57 on 04/11/2020 - 15:32
        
        @[Deactivated]: https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2012/02/28/3441707.h…
        
        [Deactivated] on 04/11/2020 - 15:38
        
        @GG57: So if you drink 2L of beer every day and pissing out 3.2L where those extra 1.2L come from and how long until you end up in negative weight territory?
        
        Hint: it does not really work like this.
        
        GG57 on 04/11/2020 - 15:40
        
        @[Deactivated]: Cool.
        You asked; I provided a link.
        
        I would be interested in reading any link you provide.
        
        [Deactivated] on 04/11/2020 - 15:45
        
        -4
        
        @GG57: Sorry, there's no article for common sense.
        
        GG57 on 04/11/2020 - 15:46
        
        +1
        
        @[Deactivated]: Thanks for your input.
        
        [Deactivated] on 04/11/2020 - 16:38
        
        -3
        
        @GG57: Anytime. Or did you want have a last word? Ooops. Sorry. Try again.
Mr Frodo on 04/11/2020 - 13:18

why would one buy whole peeled tomatoes over chopped? Does anyone know? I can't tell the difference in taste
- ippy on 04/11/2020 - 13:31
  
  +1
  
  Supposedly they use the "shitter" tomatoes (not the best looking ones maybe?) in chopped and you cant tell because it's all chopped up and mixed up. Happy to be corrected lol
  - Yola on 04/11/2020 - 13:38
    
    +1
    
    But see what is said about this in the post.
    - ippy on 04/11/2020 - 13:40
      
      +1
      
      lol typical, I didnt read the OP. Eh I think whole and crushed are both super ripe anyway in my layperson opinion. I actually buy all three - crushed/chopped, diced and whole and use them appropriately.
      - Penpinch on 04/11/2020 - 21:50
        
        @ippy: Buy crushed for pasta, buy whole for soups. Their whole tomatoes are tastier (try eating them straight from the cans) but for pasta it's just so much easier to not worry about clumps.
Ozbargainasaurus on 04/11/2020 - 13:35

You beauty! Been waiting for this. Thanks for heads up OP
Willco88 on 04/11/2020 - 13:36

Italian tomatoes the best**
- Logical on 04/11/2020 - 14:19
  
  +1
  
  Aldi have Italian canned tomatoes for 69c every day
  - Alan Laz on 04/11/2020 - 14:23
    
    Not in the same league.
    - [Deactivated] on 04/11/2020 - 15:14
      
      +2
      
      Different Italy?
    - Willco88 on 04/11/2020 - 17:37
      
      They all come from the same factory
Jugg.Judy on 04/11/2020 - 13:37

-1

more like taking a stab at covid.
- Penpinch on 04/11/2020 - 21:48
  
  You don't know how Covid works
  - Jugg.Judy on 06/11/2020 - 00:19
    
    -1
    
    I know enough not to take a chance, lol.
Alan Laz on 04/11/2020 - 14:21

+3

Best tinned tomatoes I have had in Australia.

As long as you're OK with food miles, sketchy supply chains, slave / bullied immigrant labour…get em with your ears pinned back!

Excuse me, just off to buy as many as WW will let me buy in one transaction

Thanks for the heads up OP
- Willco88 on 04/11/2020 - 17:38
  
  yummy
- arcticmonkey on 05/11/2020 - 08:51
  
  I don't think most OzBargainers care about slave wages or workers rights.
  
  Well, not until it happens to them. Then they go and post in the forums looking for help!
  - Alan Laz on 05/11/2020 - 18:32
    
    -1
    
    Of course, we really should care.
    
    iPhone factories with mesh outside to catch the falling workers as they attempt suicide
    
    Bangladesh clothing factories with sealed fire exits
    
    American pork factories encouraging Covid positive workers to keep working (and then exempted from liability by the Orange President McDonald Trump)
    
    Overfishing across the worlds oceans
    
    Indians employed to strip electronic parts for valuable metals (workers dressed in thongs and not wearing face protection)
    
    Children engaged in chocolate raw material extraction
    
    Etc
    (sigh)
    
    Still reckon Mutti tomatoes are excellent.
    - petry on 06/11/2020 - 12:02
      
      Overpriced and exploitatitve still - interesting to see how woolies even try's to influence perceptions of how it makes money from modern slavery here - just goes to show how many are paid to deceive.
      
      The moral vacuum of marketeers is one reason why the planet is screwed, and Oz effectively crippled.
      
      Why so many hate their kids beats me… extinction behaviour promoting lemmings..

This was posted 3 years 5 months 13 days ago, and might be an out-dated deal.

Mutti Finely Chopped Tomatoes Canned 400g - $1 @ Woolworths

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