I was pretty bummed to read the small print on a few cans of tomato paste I'd picked up at the dollar store. Upon closer look, I noticed it wasn't in fact tomato paste at all (although by glancing at the label, that's what you'd think).
No, this was "Tomato Paste Product", containing: Tomato Puree (Tomato Paste, Water), High Fructose Corn Syrup, Salt, Dried Onions, Partially Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil (Soybean and/or Cottonseed), Spices, Hydrolyzed Corn Gluten, Soy & Wheat Gluten Proteins, Grated Romano Cheese Made from Cow's Milk (Cultured Milk, Salt, Enzymes), Garlic, Citric Acid, Yeast, Soy Flour.
I hope your stomach's going "grrrr" too. In the past, I'd felt confident that I could use tomato paste in much of my homemade fixings, since it was such a pure product. Just tomatoes. They typically don't even add salt to tomato paste, which I think is so cool. I personally would rather add my own salt at the table, since that way, the food I'm eating hasn't already absorbed a bunch of salt. In many prepared foods, the salt has been absorbed into every cell; I don't think we can appreciate how salty it is. But the sodium counters appreciate it! The label lets you know- most canned foods are extremely high in sodium.
So when I discovered that a name brand like Contadina had started adulterating their tomato paste, I thought I'd mention it. After all, if your eyesight isn't particularly keen, you too might be duped into buying an inferior product. Like I said, "Buyer Beware!"
5 comments:
This sounds awful! I'll have to check the labels of my UK cans of tomatoes!! Thanks for the heads up.
Yes, Ruth, check it out. Hopefully, they're not as profit-hungry over there!
Sounds like it's mostly made of corn. Corn is in almost everything, which is bad. People are feeding cows corn, pigs corn all animals for processing-corn! This is because it's cheap, it makes the animals fast, and it's easy to supply. The animals are supposed to eat grass! Corn makes them so fat they barely can move. There are chickens kept in rooms so full of fat corn-fed chickens. They can't move, they only can take one step at a time. Corn is terrible, but no one really knows it yet.
Ughh....unbelievable! I really like Amore, the tomato paste in a tube. If you find yourself throwing out tomato paste, check out my tips for freezing it here:
http://www.friedalovesbread.com/2010/05/cinco-de-mayo-kitchen-tip.html
That's so funny, Frieda. I freeze mine too!
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