Are all shop-bought jars of sauce bad?

cavanmaniac

Curious about this. I've been avoiding the sauces with salt and sugar in the ingredients based on stickies information etc, but is that enough?

Consider these examples I've been using or have in the press:

1. 'Bunalun' organic tomato and vegetable sauce. I use this as a bolognese base and add some garlic paste and off I go. Ingredients: Organic tomatoes, org carrots, org celery, org basil, sea salt.

Yea or nay?

2. 'Sacla Italia' Classic Bolognese sauce for pasta. Ing: Vine ripened tomato (diced tom, tomato juice) (47%), Berbera red wine (14%), tomato paste, extra virgin olive oil, onion, carrot, celery, garlic, modified maix starch, basil, black pepper, rosemary, acidity regulator, lactic acid, bay leaf. 5.2g carb, of which sugars 4.9g, 9.4g fat, 1.3g saturates.

Yea or nay? They both look kay to me, but then again, I am a novice and just got a body fat reading of 22% today:(

ali.c

Just my 2c, the first looks al ot better that the second one primarily as it has less ingredients (and none sound like someting you'd use in a chemistry lab like "acidity regulator") and closer to what you make yourself.

I think i've said this before my dont ya just make your own?

cavanmaniac

You have indeed Ali.C but I'm just too godamn lazy! Using jars leaves me with one less thing to worry about I guess.

For bolognese you just use a tin of tomatoes with a bit of garlic or something? Any other nice sauces that are easy to make that I could try? (I will try this time, I promise!)

g-punkteffekt

they're grand, I use them everyday. They might have a lot of salt in them but that's the only problem I would imagine. People on these boards get worked up a bit too much about all the evil additives they supposedly contain.

daveirl

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Sangre

First looks quite good actually, I'd have no problems with that. Second is ok as well.

Sacla sauces are delicious.

copacetic

i love grossman sauces, and not just because name makes me smile.
looks like sugar is a bit high though compared to above but fat lower

tomatoes in juice(75%), tomato paste, sunflower oil, garlic puree, sugar, parsley, extra virgin olive oil, sea salt, red chilies and concentrated lemon juice.

per 100g - 88kcal
1.7g protein
7.3g carbs (sugars 6.7g)
fat 5.7g (sats 0.7g)
0.9g fibre
0.5g sodium

siochain

Sacla red pesto, absolute divine ………

PeakOutput

There is a tomatoe sauce (i think by ragu) that is in a tall jar the ingredients is something liek 98% tomatoes and some salt. this is what i use very cheap and does about 4 servings a bottle.

ill get the name when i go home if you want