Jo Anne Slaven wrote:

> Serendipity wrote:
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>> Commercial tomato paste contains about 30 g of sodium for 5.5 oz can.
>> That is the small can. That is a fair amount of sodium if a whole can
>> of paste was used.
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> <delurk>
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> Um, Serendipity, not to nitpick but I think that should read 30 mg
> (milligrams). I just got out a can of Unico tomato paste, and the
> ingredients a tomatoes. Nothing else.

Nitpick away, I don't mind Yes, you are quite correct. It should be
mg not g.
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> It then goes on to say that there are 11 mg of sodium per serving, but
> it doesn't define a "serving". And I assume that those 11 mg of sodium
> come from the tomatoes naturally.

I suspect you are correct given the tomato paste is so condensed and if
the product only contains tomatoes, that's the only place it could come
from. Looking at Book of Food Counts shows 11 mg sodium for a 4.75 oz
raw tomato. Bernardin's recipe for tomato paste adds 1 tsp salt for 9 -
250 ml jar batch. I honestly don't know if commercial canners add salt
or not to their tomato paste. I suspect there are low sodium versions
but haven't checked.
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> If it was 30 *grams* of sodium, that would be about 1/5 of the contents
> of the can!
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> That is all. Carry on :-)
>
> Jo Annne
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> </delurk>
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