BUITONI® Salsa Fresca Con Polpa
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Bring authentic Italian-inspired tomato flavour to your kitchen with a ready-to-use tomato base that helps improve operational efficiency, reduce preparation complexity, and support consistent dish quality across your menu.
What is BUITONI® Salsa Fresca Con Polpa?
BUITONI® Salsa Fresca Con Polpa is a ready-to-use Mediterranean tomato sauce/base made with sun-ripened, field-grown tomatoes. It delivers a fresh, bright tomato taste with natural acidity, a saucy consistency, and crushed chunky tomato texture with lightly sautéed onion pieces. Designed for professional foodservice kitchens, it helps chefs create consistent tomato-based dishes with less preparation time while keeping the freshness, mouthfeel, and versatility of a chef-ready tomato base.
Ideal for bruschetta, stews, minestrone, shakshuka, pasta sauces, and other tomato-led menu applications, BUITONI® Salsa Fresca Con Polpa gives operators a flexible foundation that can be used as-is or customised with herbs, proteins, vegetables, or signature seasonings.
Why should professional kitchens choose BUITONI® Salsa Fresca Con Polpa?
Professional kitchens need tomato solutions that deliver speed, consistency, flavour, and flexibility. BUITONI® Salsa Fresca Con Polpa is created from chefs for chefs, based on traditional Italian recipes and designed for operators who need to deliver better results with less work.
Unlike a basic tomato paste that typically requires dilution, cooking, seasoning, and texture building, BUITONI® Salsa Fresca Con Polpa provides a ready-to-use tomato base with fresh tomato taste, natural acidity, chunky texture, and saucy mouthfeel. It gives chefs a practical base that supports faster preparation, consistent output, and menu creativity across high-volume restaurant, hotel, café, and catering operations.
Why choose BUITONI® Salsa Fresca Con Polpa instead of tomato paste or scratch-made tomato sauce?
For chefs, restaurants, hotels, and caterers, BUITONI® Salsa Fresca Con Polpa is a practical choice because it combines ready-to-use convenience with the fresh tomato flavour and texture needed for professional cooking. It is positioned as a saucier alternative to regular tomato pulp, offering freshness, mouthfeel, and chunky tomato texture without requiring full preparation from scratch.
Why is it useful for chefs?
- It saves preparation time — ready to use and does not require cooking before application.
- It delivers consistent tomato flavour — balanced fresh ripe tomato taste, delicate seasoning, natural acidity, and saucy texture.
- It provides better texture than a plain tomato paste base — crushed chunky tomato sauce with lightly sautéed onion pieces.
- It works across multiple menu applications — bruschetta, stews, minestrone, shakshuka, pasta sauces, and tomato-based dishes.
- It allows chefs to customise — acts as a blank canvas for herbs, proteins, vegetables, or signature seasonings.
- It supports professional foodservice scale — 6 x 3kg format with 27-month shelf life.
- Halal
- Healthier Choice (HCS)
- Gluten-Free
- 6 x 3kg per carton
- Ambient storage / canned format
Tomato 57.0% (tomato cubes, tomato juice), tomato paste 41.7%, onion 0.5%, salt, sunflower oil, basil 0.05%
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Pack size | 6 x 3kg
MOQ | 1 carton
Application | Ready-to-use tomato sauce/base for bruschetta, stews, minestrone, shakshuka, pasta sauces, and tomato-based dishes
Shelf life | 27 months
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How does BUITONI® Salsa Fresca Con Polpa compare with BUITONI Tomato Coulis?
Attribute | BUITONI® Salsa Fresca Con Polpa | BUITONI Tomato Coulis 3kg |
Product Name | BUITONI® Salsa Fresca Con Polpa | BUITONI Coulis de Tomate / Tomato Coulis |
Variant / Type | Ready-to-use chunky tomato sauce/base | Ready-to-use tomato coulis sauce |
Short Description | Fresh, bright tomato base with natural acidity, crushed chunky tomato texture, and saucy mouthfeel | Delicate yet pulpy tomato sauce with round onion flavour and balanced taste |
Key Features / Benefits | Ready to use, no cooking required, flexible base for chef creativity BUITONI Salsa Fresca is a 100% natural tomato base that allows the chef to further add other ingredients such as onions, carrots, peppers and combination of herbs and spices to enhance the flavour, creating his signature flavour and menu. It takes the hard work out of cleaning, cutting and cooking tomatoes into a ready to use base, providing consistency in the product. | 80–100% complete solution with balanced tomato acidity and onion sweetness BUITONI Coulis is a 80-100% complete solution with herbs and the sweetness of onions, ready to use in pasta topping, soups, lasagnas and stews. |
Ingredients | Tomato 57.0% (tomato cubes, tomato juice), tomato paste 41.7%, onion 0.5%, salt, sunflower oil, basil 0.05% | Tomatoes, tomato paste, water, onions, sunflower oil, sugar, salt, spices (garlic, pepper), herbs (basil, oregano), acidity regulator (citric acid), firming agent (calcium chloride). Contains acidity regulator and firming agent as permitted food conditioner |
Allergens | No | No |
Format / Pack Size | 6 x 3kg | 6 x 3kg |
Preparation Method | Ready to use; can be used as a base or customised with other ingredients | Use as-is or mix with seasoning and/or protein for quick dish components |
Storage | Ambient / canned format | Ambient / canned format |
Target Usage | Bruschetta, stews, minestrone, shakshuka, pasta sauces, tomato bases | White meat and fish sauces, filled pasta, ratatouille, ragout, lasagna, pies |
Key Differentiator | Fresher, chunkier tomato base that gives chefs flexibility and mouthfeel | More complete sauce solution with herbs, onion flavour, and ready-to-serve positioning |