Varieties of Seedless Tomato

Uses

• For those with health issues associated with the ingestion of tomato seeds, such as diverticulitis, seedless tomatoes are an alternative. Cooks also find that seedless tomatoes eliminate the chore of removing the seeds when making tomato sauce and paste.

Seedless Tomatoes

• Burpee Gardening has a hybrid tomato plant that is truly seedless. The variety, Sweet Seedless, is a relative newcomer that has only been available since 2009. The plants produce fruit that is a bit larger than a baseball, weighing from 8 to 10 ounces. The plants are resistant to disease and are hardy. The fruit is sweet, since the plants don’t store sugar in the seeds. Finding these tomatoes in your local supermarket may be difficult, but seeds to grow the plants are available from seed companies, including Burpee.

Slicing Tomatoes

• Oregon Spring is a tomato variety that produces fruit with very few seeds. These tomatoes are an alternative for those who cannot eat the tomato seeds. The fruit is large with good flavor, although the flesh is mushy. The plants are cool weather resistant. The earliest fruits are the largest and have the fewest seeds that are easy to remove. Oxheart is a variety with heart-shaped pink fruit. The tomatoes are meaty with few seeds that are easily removed. The tomatoes are good for slicing for sandwiches.

Plum Tomatoes

• Plum tomatoes are often used in making pastes and sauces. Some varieties have few seeds that are easily removed. Opalka tomatoes make a sweet sauce. The fruit is long and shaped like a banana pepper. Rocky tomatoes are large, meaty plum tomatoes with few seeds and an intense flavor. The fruit is good for sauces or for eating fresh. Polish Pastel is a bi-colored fruit that has red and yellow striping and mottling. It is a meaty tomato that is not juicy, but has few seeds.