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On Feb 27, 10:32*pm, Nad R > wrote:
> Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:
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> > Tomato juice is made from tomato juice concentrate, aka tomato paste.
> > Anyone who actually buys tomato juice is an idiot, they're paying a
> > premium for containers, water, shipping, and storage when they can be
> > buying cans of tomato paste on sale and mixing it with water at
> > home... it's exactly the same product. *Um, tomato soup the same.
> > Ketchup is made from tomato paste too... read the label... in the
> > industry they call it concentrate, paste doesn't sound as palatable.

>
> Sadly mistaken. I do not buy my tomato juice. I make my own canned tomato
> juice directly from fresh off the vine tomatoes that uses a Victoria
> Strainer. Canned tomato sauce and paste is made from tomato juice boiled
> down. I do this every year in September.
>
> Your reasoning is also flawed. In the stores tomato juice is often cheaper
> than tomato paste, over buying paste and add water for the same quantity.
> Most fruits in it's natural juice taste better than adding tap chlorinated
> water to tomato paste, so it is not the same product. Mentioned also, just
> wait for paste to go on sale? Why not wait for tomato juice to go on sale..


Sheldon is blowing out his ass again. Not all brands are
reconstituted.
http://www.livestrong.com/thedailypl...m-concentrate/
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> --
> Enjoy Life... Nad R


--Bryan