How often have you turned over a food product and found all manner of unusual and unexpected ingredients in it? Well, that won’t happen with BioOrto’s Organic Passata. It’s simply made using the finest handpicked tomatoes from Puglia and a pinch of salt. Trapped inside the jar is the essence of summertime – Italian style. BioOrto are quite rightly proud of this sweet, creamy and scarlet “Queen of Preserves”, and especially its high levels of the antioxidant lycopene (thought to be good for the heart and blood). We believe that this should be the base of any tomato sauce you make after today. We fell in love with BioOrto because their produce is all so healthy, nutritious and full of goodness. Then we met the Passalacqua family – saw their hard work, heritage and provenance – and understood why. Their grandparents moved from a nomadic livestock lifestyle in the mountains of Abruzzo and headed south to settle in Puglia near the Gargano National Park. Here on the fertile soils in the perfect climate, they began farming fruit and vegetables in harmony with nature. Over subsequent generations their operation has grown to 5,000 hectares and they’ve become synonymous with top-quality, hand-picked, organic produce throughout Europe.