Customer Reviews

Muir Glen Organic Tomatoes, Diced, 14.5-Ounce Cans (Pack of 12)

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Everything that I have tried that is Muir Glen has been of exceptional quality. I know that I can try anything of their's and be assured of a good result, no matter what I am making in the kitchen.

I buy many of Muir Glen's tomato products--diced, crushed and whole. Consistently good product. I buy because they are organic--and they happen to be excellent.

I contacted Muir Glen directly and asked whether or not their cans contained BPA. You can see their response below:

"Thank you for contacting Muir Glen about bisphenol-A or BPA.

Bisphenol-A is a component of protective coatings in metal food packaging, and provides an important food safety and quality function in canned foods. Scientific and governmental bodies worldwide have examined the science many times and have concluded that the weight of evidence supports the safety of BPA, including recent comprehensive assessments in Japan and in the European Union.

In January 2010, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced another review of BPA. This review in expected to take 18-24 months, and Health Canada and the World Health Organization (WHO) will participate.

Most metal cans in the food industry utilize BPA in the can lining or can lid. Some of our products do, and many competitors' products do as well.

Muir Glen continues to believe BPA is safe. However, we know that some of our consumers have wanted us to pursue alternatives. We have been working with our can suppliers and can manufacturers to develop and test alternative linings that do not use BPA for some time.

One alternative has proven safe and viable in our processing of tomatoes - and Muir Glen is in the midst of transitioning to cans with liners that do not use BPA. It is an approved non-epoxy alternative. Can coatings used by Muir Glen also comply fully with all applicable U.S. Food and Drug Administration requirements for safe use in food contact applications.

Your views are important to us. Again, thank you for contacting Muir Glen, and thank you for your support of our products.

Sincerely,

Consumer Services"

These are our favorite tomatoes. Make every recipe taste better when we use quality ingredients.

I love Muir Glen tomato products but sadly I had to give them up due to their can liners containing bisphenol A (BPA). I will not feed anymore BPA to my kids! It makes me sick that I fed them with BPA laden baby bottles before I knew better. We already have enough cancer in our family. I don't know why anyone is surprised that BPA acts like a synthetic estrogen therefore an endocrine disrupter--BPA was ORIGINALLY developed in the 1930s as a synthetic estrogen drug for women. Shortly after it was developed, a new synthetic estrogen drug came out (DES) so BPA fell by the wayside until someone figured out it could be used in plastics and can liners to help make them harder.

I wrote to Muir Glen (now owned by General Mills) to see if they have any plans to remove BPA from their cans but they did not respond to me. I would be happy to pay a bit more for jarred tomato products if they can't come up with BPA free cans. Or how about tomatoes in cartons or frozen?

Please write to the companies that you buy canned tomatoes from and ask for BPA free products. Let me know if anyone finds BPA free tomato products, such as tomato paste, diced tomatoes, whole tomatoes...by responding to this comment--I will get an email.

I have young children and I will not feed them anymore BPA!!!

I love Muir Glen tomatoes and have used them for years. Since I use so much of them, I thought I'd order them in a 12-pack and get a good price, but I may have to go back to buying them at my local co-op. Most of the cans were dented. The packaging seemed fine and undamaged, so I'm not sure it happened when they were shipped to me - perhaps Amazon got them that way, but the end result was I got dented cans. At least at my local store I can check the cans before bringing them home.

... not like salt, not like preservatives, not like an over seasoned concoction? Can you believe tomatoes can look like tomatoes, not like they've been chopped up to pieces? Yes - Muir Glen tomatoes taste like tomatoes and look like tomatoes. I buy their diced tomato cans at my local warehouse club. The taste is unbelievable. They are flesh, smell amazing, and the tomatoes inside are so sweet and juicy. I make pasta sauses, I also make chili, and I now only use these tomatoes, even skipping fresh ones and tomato paste. I took and uploaded nutritional label pictures to amazon's page.

Nutrition rundown: calories: 30; calories from fat: 0%; total fat: 0g; cholesterol 0mg; sodium: 290mg; carbs: 6g; sugars: 4g; protein: 1g; also contains vitamin A, Vitamin C; Calcium 2% and Iron 4%. Serving Size: 1/2 cup; servings per container: 3.

Ingredients: organic tomatoes and tomato juice; salt, naturally derived citric acid and calcium chloride. That's it!

I was first turned onto this product from a review from Cook's Illustrated whose American Test Kitchen rated them the best tasting. They are absolutely the best tasting. They cost more but it is worth it for the end result. And they're organic to boot.

Muir Glen is my favorite canned organic tomato, in all forms, but especially the fire roasted. Great for tomato bisque.

The product was fine--they are good enough diced tomatoes, but when they arrived they were so dented that we could only use about three of the cans. I don't think we'll buy canned goods from Amazon again.