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If This Ingredient Isn't Listed First On Your Jar Of Marinara, It's Time To Choose Another One By Haley McNamara Sept. 14, 2025 8:20 pm EST

You would think that when shopping for a jar of marinara sauce, it'd be easy to find one made primarily from tomatoes, right? But as it turns out, the overwhelming majority of the hundreds (if not thousands) of brands of jarred marinara sauce do not list "tomatoes" as the primary ingredient. If you pick up a jar of marinara and the top of the ingredient list is something like "tomato purée (water, tomato paste)," kindly put it back on the shelf. While tomato purée is made from tomatoes, diluting tomato paste with water is essentially a shortcut taken by companies to quickly and cheaply produce jarred sauces. While that cho

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