Heinz Ketchup

[ll_billym]

I looked at the ingredients on a small bottle of Heinz tomato ketchup yesterday and the first item was "126g of tomatoes per 100g". Can anyone explain this?  Thanks.

[rja211077]

it must mean that they use 126g of tomatoes to make 100g - i.e not all the tomato ends up in the final product

[stoo_pid]

presumably a lot of the original weight of the tomatoes is lost through the processing (losing the skin, pips, water etc.)

[Knob]

Its because when the tomatoes are cooked to make the sauce they lose mass (water) which is evaporated during the cooking process.  This is how they get it so "tomatoey" and thick

[stoo_pid]

beat me to it rja!

[ll_billym]

Thanks, but that it pretty obvious.  I thought that the ingredients that are on the bottle would have to state how much if each ingredient is in the bottle, not how much went into the manufacturing process i.e how much tomato is in each 100g of sauce and how much of everything else.  Either as a percentage or as an amount.  Are there no rules on this?

[ll_billym]

Sorry, I don't mean to demean your answers, I just should have phrased the question properly.

[Octavius]

Perhaps they are trying to subliminally emphasise that it is indeed VERY tomatoey....

[tomd]

The ingredients don't have to specify amounts except in Nutritional Information, if you look at most other packaging it only has the order and not normally any amounts at all.

[Bohne]

I guess the question has already been answered, but I thought it was funny, that I saw the same thing, yesterday!

:o)

They contain a lot of water, though, so I never thought anything of it!

[bernardo]

The 126g of tomatoes is the original weight of the raw tomatoes; they get dehydrated before being put into the recipe.

[woofgang]

its the same with excellent jams. The finished product contains as much, or more, raw fruit by weight as the weight of the finished jam.