White Heirloom Tomato Varieties

White heirloom tomatoes are fun to grow for their novelty alone. Not many people have even seen them much less grown them in their vegetable garden. Aside from the fact that they look tremendous in a tossed salad blended with the typical red tomato varieties, white tomatoes are very low in acid. This can be beneficial for gardeners who don’t tolerate acidic food.

It should be mentioned that “white” tomatoes aren’t pure white. Generally, they’re an extremely yellow or a creamy color. They make beautiful (and flavorful) white spaghetti sauce, pizza sauce, and even lasagna.

Depending on the variety, white tomatoes can have a blander flavor than red tomatoes, but there are some white varieties that are extremely sweet, too. In any case, the white ones are much less acidic than the red varieties.

White Heirloom Tomatoes

• Cream Sausage or Banana Cream – Cream Sausage produces white to light yellow, sausage-shape fruits have a nice, sweet flavor. It’s perfect for salsas and makes a lovely cream-color cream sauce.
• Duggin White – This rare, white heirloom tomato is a medium-size beefsteak tomato with a strong, fruity taste.
• Great White – This creamy white, beefsteak tomato weighs in at 1 pound and is smoother than most of the beefsteak types. Baker Creek describes the flesh as tasting so fruity that it reminds them of a mix of fresh pineapple, melon, and guava.
• Ivory Egg – This is a rare cream-color tomato that comes from Sweden. Ivory Egg has the shape and size of a chicken egg and the flesh is sweet and rich in flavor.
• Shah/Mikado White – These creamy-white fruits are flattened globes with a hint of blush at the blossom end when they’re ripe. They have a seriously sweet flavor with a hint of pear.
• Snowberry – Snowberry is a popular little cherry tomato in Europe but isn’t easy to find in the United States (Baker Creek has them). It’s a creamy light-yellow, 1 pound fruit that has a mellow, fruity flavor.
• Transparent – Transparent has an uncommon, pale, lemon-color. It has a smooth texture and a sweet flavor..
• White Queen – This almost white, 3 pound, round, and flat tomato has ribbed shoulders and possibly some pink streaks on the blossom end. Make a fabulous white pasta sauce.
• White Tomesol – Those gourmet gardeners are going to love this heirloom. The fruit is a beautiful, cream-color and has a wonderful fragrance. It has exceptionally sweet flavor.
• White Wax – William Woys Weaver passed this heirloom down from his Mennonite grandfather. The fruit has a flattened shape and is waxy and sweet.
• White Wonder – This white tomato variety was chosen for the famous Chez Panisse restaurant owned by Alice Waters. These are medium-size, creamy white fruits that have a sugary-sweet flavor and are easy to grow.

Purchase White Tomato Heirloom Seeds

• Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
• Reimer Seeds
• Victory Seeds
• D.Landreth Seed Company

Because the tomato varieties listed are heirlooms as opposed to hybrids, their seeds can be saved and replanted the following year (and every year after that). The seeds that are saved will produce plants and fruit that have the same characteristics as the parent plant.

Be sure to check out Black, Purple, and Brown Heirloom Tomato Varieties.