Sugar in canned tomato sauce
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lalykamp
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I'm usually good with reading labels. Always thought tomato sauce was safe. I just realized the brand I purchased has added sugar
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Does that make it unsafe?8
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whats wrong with that o_O3
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If you are watching for added sugar, reading labels is key. I always choose the brands with the lowest added sugar. Who needs the empty added calories in something like tomato sauce? I save them for another time1
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I just started my keto journey and sugar is not going to help. Correct me if i'm wrong9
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As in pasta sauce? It's pretty common to add a little sugar to tomato sauces to bring out the flavour.4
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VintageFeline wrote: »As in pasta sauce? It's pretty common to add a little sugar to tomato sauces to bring out the flavour.2
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If sugar is of that much importance then as above, get savvier at reading labels or make your own sauce, tomato sauce can be knocked up pretty quickly.1
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Then why are you having tomato sauce.....far too many carbs[/quote]
Yeah now that I know I politely left it for the next person to use3 -
Rao's makes really good tomato sauces that's decent for low carb lifestyles!1
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They pretty much all do. Get canned chopped or crushed tomatoes and make your own reduction if that fits better for you.1
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Generally, I buy several flats of campari tomatoes and let them ripen on the counter and use them for sauce, or chopped or quartered. (Best sauce ever is to dump some in the blender / food processor with a onion and garlic and then add some salt and pepper and butter / olive oil to sauce pan and cook on medium low a few hours) They taste so much better than canned. If you have Aldi's or Trader Joes - none of their canned tomatoes have sugar in them...1
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suzannesimmons3 wrote: »
Seriously. Tomatoes have carbs. Botanically, they're fruit -- because of the seeds, but it's not like they have no carbs. They're certainly not a protein and fat-filled piece of produce.
If I were to do keto, I would never have thought that tomato sauce would be OK in the first place.3 -
My slim happy keto co-worker who also uses mfp to track his food describes his comfortable keto meal plan as "Breakfast: Bulletproof coffee. Lunch: green salad . Afternoon snack: 24 almonds."
The salad needs to be weighed to deliver no more than whatever your budget of carbs is. Don't put any carbs in the coffee and the almonds don't have carbs.
Download an app to track your net carbs from foodfastfit.com It works on my pc and it might work on your phone Read the instructions carefully.
If you take your carbs in the green salad, you can and should garnish it with an oil and vinegar dressing.
If you need more food in the evening, figure it out. He didn't tell me what he did in the evening. He likes to walk for exercise. As long as his energy demands don't exceed his fat metabolism, he claims to be able to go 'forever', but that's an exaggeration.3 -
It's doubtful that a brand with added sugar has more sugar than one that doesn't. Adding sugar is a shortcut to flavor. Brands without added sugar reach the sweetness they need by cooking more water out of the sauce. But sugar is sugar whether it comes from sugar cane or from tomatoes.2
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Yea tomato sauce isn't good for keto. That being said, it's good that you are reading labels. They put sugar in many many foods now. I find cooking my own stuff from scratch is the best way to do keto. I can control what goes in it.1
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Many jarred tomato sauces have little or no added sugar in them now, though some still do. They'll still have a decent amount of sugar on the label, because tomatoes naturally have a fair amount of sugar in them.0
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