> wrote:
>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 much
> difference. I have been a label reader for forty years, and cannot
> believe that I never noticed this before.
>
> Tomato


You obviously have not been reading labels carefully... with just about
every product that contains tomato the tomato is reconstitued tomato
paste/concentrate... all tomato sauce, all tomato juice, all ketchup, even
Heinz. This the only reasonable method for maintaining product consistancy.