"john east" wrote:
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>Novice is experimenting making soups mainly from tomatoes and tomato puree.
>They need to be sweetened somewhat. What would be a *healthy* item added to
>give more sweetness in such a soup, other than using sugar?

Sweet & sour cabbage soup/stuffed cabbage gets fresh lemon for sour
and raisins for sweet. Dried fruit is often used as a sweetener, goes
especially well with tomato based recipes.