Wegmans Tomato Paste, 6 oz — MUNCH

Munch or Dump rates Wegmans Tomato Paste, 6 oz by Wegmans MUNCH — score 100/90.

Concentrated tomatoes and a touch of citric acid, and that is the whole can. Cooking it down naturally raises the sugar and flavor, but nothing is added beyond an acidulant. A clean recipe base with nothing to apologize for.

Why this verdict

• Two-ingredient list: concentrated tomato plus citric acid
• No added sugar, oil, salt, colors, or preservatives
• Minimally processed concentrate of a whole vegetable
• The higher sugar reading is natural tomato sugar concentrated down, not added

Ingredients (2)

• Tomato pulp (safe) — Concentrated whole tomato; the entire substance of the product.
• citric acid (safe) — Naturally occurring acid used to stabilize acidity and color; benign in these amounts.