Reader’s Digest: November 2025

In November 2025, we published the following articles:

• Italian quotations for new products are slightly down but remain above 2022 opening prices.
•  California: final tonnage for 2025, after an 18-week campaign.
• Chinese exports of tomato paste are declining for the third quarter in a row, with variations between destinations.
• Tomato Paste Prices, November 2025: Spain, Portugal, Italy, China, Chile and USA.
• Brazilian researchers developed an AI system recognizing and counting tomatoes on conveyor belts, thereby improving quality control and reducing waste.
• Photonics, and particularly Near Infrared (NIR) spectroscopy, are enhancing decision-making and sustainability. Senseen aims at making these technologies affordable with the Nutriscope^TM, a low-cost, pocket-sized photonic scanning device.
• Global Exports of Tomato Paste, updated November 11, 2025.
• Mutti processed a record volume this year and rewarded its farmers with 9 million euros in financial incentives.
• Researchers from the CRAG (Center for Research in Agronomics) and the University of Barcelona successfully increased Glycosylated Sterols (GS), a molecular sensor, in tomato plant’s cell membranes, thereby enhancing the plant’s defense mechanism and preparing it to withstand the cold.
• Imports of Chinese tomato paste to Europe has decreased in the last years, except for a few countries.
• Casalasco opened its new Innovation Center in Fontanellato (Parma), marking a strategic milestone in the Group’s growth path.
• A roundtable was held between OI Pomodoro Central-Southern Basin, ANICAV and MASAF (Italian Ministry of Agriculture, Food Sovereignty and Forests) to discuss intervention strategies to support the sector.
• From the Tomato News Conference: Martin Stilwell on the Evolution of the tomato paste market.
• The Australian anti-dumping commission, following a complaint by SPC, found out that three Italian producers sold dumped and/or subsidized canned tomatoes, and stated that material injury had not been caused by those imports.
• Prices of Canned Tomatoes, November 2025: Italy, Spain, USA, Greece, Portugal.
• Kagome plans to acquire Silbury, a UK food distributor of processed tomato and oil products, and to make it a consolidated subsidiary.
• From the Tomato News Conference: Filipp Roda on Agrifood commodities under pressure.
• Hansin launched its 100% recycled, frozen-resistant, metal-based composite pallets.
• Researchers from the PRIMA-funded FunTomP project developed a green extraction method to recover lycopene, beta-carotene and polyphenols from tomato peel waste.
• Portuguese exports of tomato products recorded a significant decline in revenue, despite a recovery in tomato paste and canned tomatoes exports in the last marketing year.
• Global Imports of Tomato Products, updated November 27, 2025.
• A three-article series in The Lancet exposes evidence that Ultra Processed Foods (UPFs) are worsening diet quality and are associated with a higher risk of multiple chronic diseases.
• From the Tomato News Conference: Roundtable on a Resilient Supply Chain in the fields.
• Interview: Roberto Catelli, president of CFT.

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