Sugar in Tomato Sauces?

Filed under: Health — Jon Gales @ 3:49 pm

Tomatoes are so naturally juicy, succulent and sweet, especially the ones I get straight from the farmer through my CSA.

So I’m always baffled when I pick up a jar or can of tomato sauce and it’s loaded with sugars, often high fructose corn syrup.

Well, astute reporter Charles Ferruzza for the Kansas City paper, The Pitch, unraveled the truth about why some tomato sauces were so sweet at restaurants he was reviewing.

You can read what he discovered here.