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• Strained tomato juice or pulp along with spices, salt, sugar and vinegar is cooked or concentrated to the extent that ketchup and sauce contains not less than 12 percent tomato solids, 25 percent total solids and minimum acidity as 1% acetic acid.
• It is very important that the tomatoes are of consistent quality, which is why they are sorted using a sorting machine. The sorted tomatoes are reduced and pre-cooked in stainless steel barrels, so that the tomatoes are preserved and microorganisms are kil
• the usually large, rounded, edible, pulpy berry of an herb (genus Solanum) of the nightshade family native to South America that is typically red but may be yellow, orange, green, or purplish in color and is eaten raw or cooked as a vegetable.