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Fresh tomatoes can be eaten raw and fresh or fried with other vegetables. The most common method is to process fresh tomatoes into tomato paste or tomato sauce as a seasoning for cooking. When we proceed with tomato products, there are several different end products like tomato paste, tomato sauce, tomato ketchup, tomato puree and tomato juice. Today we will give an introduction of these products’ different feature and processing methods.
Fresh tomatoes after washing, crushing, pulping, concentrating and sterilizing, we will get the tomato paste. Tomato paste solid level is between 28%-38%. The end products are pure tomato products without any ingredients. The shelf life can reach to 2 years in ambient temperature filled into 220kg aseptic bags in drums, and they are often used as raw materials to make tomato sauce and ketchup.