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Default tomato paste vs tomato sauce

wrote on Mon, 4 May 2009 12:36:26 -0700 (PDT):

> Thanks
>I looked on the label of a small can of tomato sauce, and I noticed
>that the main ingredient was tomato paste. So would you be better off
>just buying paste, and adding liquid to it? or would it not make
>muchdifference. I have been a label reader for forty years, and
>cannotbelieve that I never noticed this before.


It's just a matter of convenience. There's less bother if a brand of
sauce pleases you but you might start with the paste if you intend to
add your own herbs etc.

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