Parco Nazionale del Pollino

History: Ribbed tomato is used fresh, in salad or on toasted bread. Before the industrial cultivar became widespread, it was used also to prepare tomato sauce, a habit which is still alive in the Park territory.

• Territory: Mercure Valley
• Shape: spherical, irregular, with ribs
• Size/Weight: over 1 kilo
• Consistency: fleshy pulp with not so many seeds contained in small lobes near the edge
• Production period: late August-late October