I think there’s three levels of this. At all levels, you need to optimize for hardiness and pest resistence, but on the flavor/durability scale:
If you grow the tomatoes yourself, you can optimize strongly for flavor, since the tomatoes just need to be durable enough to be hand-picked and then immediately cooked
If you grow tomatoes on an industrial scale for tomato sauce, you need enough durability to survive being picked and processed by machines, but they don’t need to survive weeks of transportation
If you grow tomatoes on an industrial scale to be sold in the produce section, you need to go even farther with durability to survive the initial picking step and weeks of sitting around.
So I would expect high quality industrial tomato sauce to taste better than home-made tomato sauce made from standard grocery store tomatoes, but for home-made tomato sauce made from home-grown tomatoes to taste significantly better.
I think there’s three levels of this. At all levels, you need to optimize for hardiness and pest resistence, but on the flavor/durability scale:
If you grow the tomatoes yourself, you can optimize strongly for flavor, since the tomatoes just need to be durable enough to be hand-picked and then immediately cooked
If you grow tomatoes on an industrial scale for tomato sauce, you need enough durability to survive being picked and processed by machines, but they don’t need to survive weeks of transportation
If you grow tomatoes on an industrial scale to be sold in the produce section, you need to go even farther with durability to survive the initial picking step and weeks of sitting around.
So I would expect high quality industrial tomato sauce to taste better than home-made tomato sauce made from standard grocery store tomatoes, but for home-made tomato sauce made from home-grown tomatoes to taste significantly better.
Yeah I’d totally expect the home grown or farmers market tomato sauce to win, but expect most people not to be doing that.