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.
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
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?
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.