The key to high quality tomato paste is using healthy, fresh tomatoes. They use red ripe tomatoes with low acidity and high natural sugar levels. They peel, wash, and evaporate them under controlled temperature to maintain their natural taste, nutrients, and deep red color. Quality is never inexpensive, and there are quite a few things that contribute to prices of tomato paste globally. The first among these is raw cost of tomato, which could be different based on crop level, weather, and inputs. Tomatoes are processed more in terms of per ton so that a higher quality of tomato paste is achieved, and it is processed more due to quality considerations and hence production cost is raised.
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