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Real salsa verde is made from tomatillos and not from green tomatoes. Is this a translation error or were green tomatoes really used?
I assume that it really is green tomatoes as they are printed on the label.
Besides, green tomatoes are quite unpalatable and poisonous in large quantities.
Tomatillos come from the physalis family, green tomatoes are simply unripe... The taste is also totally different.
Hello Preed, our "Salsa Verde" is actually authentically made from "tomate verde", which is the common name in Mexico for the fruit Physalis ixocarpa, also known internationally as tomatillo. The ingredient listed on the label as "green tomatoes" refers precisely to the tomatillo (Physalis ixocarpa) and not to an unripe ordinary tomato. This is not a translation error, but the correct name for this particular fruit in our regional context. It is not an unripe version of the common red tomato. It is completely safe to eat, traditional in Mexican cuisine and the key ingredient for an authentic "salsa verde". Best regards, your M-Infoline team
Thanks for the explanation, and yes, in Mexico tomatillos are called tomate verde, but in Switzerland green tomatoes are clearly understood to be unripe normal tomatoes, whereas in German tomatillos are clearly referred to as Tomatillos or Physalis ixocarpa, and botanically it would be wrong to simply declare them as green tomatoes here, so it is not automatically assumed that this term means tomatillos.
And how do you deal with it if someone has a tomatillo allergy and thinks "hey, they're tomatoes and not tomatillos" and then has an allergic reaction?
Fact: In Mexico, tomatillos are called tomato verde
Fact in German they are called Tomatilos or botanically Physalis ixocarpa....
And I'll leave out the fact that the label clearly shows a tomato and not a tomatillo. The Migros graphic design team probably only googled for green tomatoes instead of tomato verde. And even if you google.ch for tomato verde, both tomatillos and green tomatoes come up.
I suggest you stick to the German language instead of translating Mexican Spanish word for word into German.
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