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Serene Vannoy > wrote:

> James Silverton wrote:
> > 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.
> >
>
> Yep. We even make our own tomato juice from paste now (we buy paste with
> no spices), since the day we noticed that all the tomato juice we were
> buying was from concentrate anyway.
>
> Serene

I like to use tomato paste to make tomato soup. :-d
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