Semino the Tomato

The Tomato of the Piana del Sele

Semino is born from a challenge. The challenge of a young farmer, Pasquale Palumbo, who continues his natural dedication to the land that his family has been cultivating for more than fifty years, decides to bring to the table the flavor of homemade tomato preserves, carefully preserved in refined and elegant glasses or tins, in absolute respect for craftsmanship.

The Palumbo Company is in Campania, the region's capital of the Mediterranean Diet, more specifically in the Piana del Sele, in the province of Salerno, one of the most fertile and productive areas of the Bel Paese.

A History of Love and Passion - Our Company - Passion for the Earth

Semino was born from a challenge by Pasquale Palumbo. Continuing the natural dedication to the land that his family has been cultivating for over fifty years, packing a small part of its production.

With the great success of the product, Pasquale decided to complete the range with peeled tomatoes, tomatoes, red tomatoes, yellow tomatoes, red tomatoes and yellow tomatoes, all in 400 g tin and 580 g glass.

Semìno is a high quality product. The tomatoes used are sterilized in a bain-marie, without preservatives or dyes, in the absolute respect of craftsmanship.

Products - Puree and Peeled - Our Tomatoes

Our Biggest Treasure - Our Tomatoes

To meet the expectations of a more and more conscious and demanding consumer, this is the philosophy behind Semino, a simple philosophy that is the result of over fifty years of field experience, a careful selection of the best ripe tomatoes, hand-picked exclusively in our lands of the Piana del Sele, a gentle processing, that takes place within 24 hours of collection to preserve intact all their precious nutritional characteristics, together with the sweet and intense taste!

Semino is a line of tomatoes made simply with tomatoes, which respects and enhances all the characteristics of the excellent raw material, without the addition of preservatives and chemical additives, a product of exquisite goodness that uses only the best varieties of tomatoes: from the San Marzano variety to several varieties of small tomatoes such as the Yellow and Red Datterino and the Ciliegino, also Yellow and Red.

All varieties are characterized by a degree of sweetness and taste so intense that Semino is a product with an unique flavor, able to satisfy even the most demanding palates, ready to become the protagonist of healthy cuisine and careful to bring on the table the best that nature has to offer.

The Territory - The Origins of Our Dream - Piana del Sele

For the richness, variety and excellence of the products of its agriculture, the Piana del Sele has been called the "California of Italy". From the heart of this territory come a lot of ready-to-use fruit and vegetables that end up in Italy and in good part of the Continental Europe.
It is in this fertile territory that for over fifty years the Palumbo family has been passionately dedicated to the production of vegetables and fruits, especially tomatoes, of the San Marzano type, the most appreciated in the world for its unique characteristics that are exalted by the transformation into "peeled".

High Quality Conservation

By pursuing this natural dedication for the land, Pasquale decides to make a leap forward from production to transformation.

First, packing a small part of the production of its Piana del Sele tomatoes, afterwards, given the great success of the product, completing the range with peeled tomatoes, tomatoes, red cherry tomatoes, yellow tomatoes, red dates and dattered tomatoes Yellow all ready for use in both 400g and 580g glass.

This is why Semino, the true and top quality preserves, produced under the name of a selected raw material based on seasonality and careful processing: the tomatoes used are sterilized in a bain-marie , Without preservatives or dyes, in absolute respect for craftsmanship.

Pasquale Palumbo - Merano Wine Festival