Tomato sugar question
KenSmith108
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Do you think home grown vine ripe tomatoes have more sugar
in them than the store bought early picked ones?
We're using our frozen garden tomatoes for sauce & it seems to
raise my bg#. No sugar added to the sauce.
I have the sauce with zoodles.
I can't use store bought sauce at all.
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in them than the store bought early picked ones?
We're using our frozen garden tomatoes for sauce & it seems to
raise my bg#. No sugar added to the sauce.
I have the sauce with zoodles.
I can't use store bought sauce at all.
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Tomatoes are so healthy, I try to work them in a few days a week. I even suppliment with tomato lycopene. But as for the carbs from different varieties I have no clue. From a glycemic load point of view they are a low 15, so the risk of insulin spikes don't concern me as much as other carb heavy veggies like potatoes. Why they are spiking you may just be your sensitivity0
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Home grown certainly taste sweeter to me - that's what makes them so good!
Have you tried Rao's sauce? It's pricey, but there is no added sugar and a fair amount of olive oil (and it tastes the best of all the store-bought sauces to me). Maybe an option for when you don't have time to make your own?
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Home grown certainly taste sweeter to me - that's what makes them so good!
Have you tried Rao's sauce? It's pricey, but there is no added sugar and a fair amount of olive oil (and it tastes the best of all the store-bought sauces to me). Maybe an option for when you don't have time to make your own?
Ty
I just looked up their nut. label it matches ours.
Now I have a "go to" brand when our freezer supply is gone. or 0 -
It may be the variety used. But I wouldn't be surprised since I don't know how they grow the grocery store ones, they could have less sugar or other nutrients as well.0
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Ken, buy and grow yellow tomatoes...yes, there are such things, and yes nurseries and places like Home Depot do carry and sell them. Same tomato flavor, generally speaking, less sugar.
Sugar where tomatoes are concerned:
Yellow = lowest sugar content
Orange = medium sugar content
Red = high sugar content
Green = highest sugar content
Yes, the kind of tomato you grow in your garden could very well contain more sugar than those sold in the stores based on several things like (1) variety grown; (2) size of the fruit; (3) amount of foliage on the plant (more leaves = the plant captures more sunlight (i.e. energy) which it is then able to turn into higher sugar content contained in the fruit); (4) soil; (5) temperature; and (6) amount of sunlight the plant receives on a daily basis.2 -
Mmmmm. Love tomatoes. They taste so sweet now that I rarely have anything with added sugar. Never would have guessed green was highest in sugar. Thanks for the tip!0
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