Eliminating canned foods takes some work. But, there are readily available alternatives to most canned foods like fruit, vegetables and beans. When it comes to tomato sauce and tomato paste, I’ve been at a lost to find a replacement… until now!
Check out these gorgeous glass jars chock full of organic goodness! The Bionaturae organic foods company packages tomato sauce (strained tomatoes), tomato paste and a variety of fruit nectars in healthy, BPA-free glass. Thank-you very much!!! It’s available on Amazon, but the shipping is outrageous. A friend pointed out that the Bionaturae line is also available on Vitacost.com, an excellent natural living store from which I already purchase most of our toiletries. Fortunately, Vitacost has $4.99 flat rate shipping. I added a 12 pack of tomato paste and 6 extra-large jars of sauce to my order. They arrived without any breakage. Don’t they look pretty?
P.S. My rough calculations show that at Vitcost prices, Bionaturae organic tomato paste is about 75 cents more per jar than regular canned tomato paste. Bionaturae organic tomato sauce is sold in 24 oz jars, rather than the typical 16 oz can. As such, the Bionaturae sauce is about 45 cents more per 16 oz than regular canned tomato sauce. It’ll be easy to store partially used jars of sauce in the fridge for later use.
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Tags: BPA, canned food, jarred tomato paste, jarred tomato sauce
I just wanted to let you know that these tomato jars do contain PVC
Here is the info from Bionaturae
“The lids of our jars do not contain BPA but they do contain a small
percentage of PVC in the round seal that you see on the inner surface of
the lid. This is used to secure the closure of the lid and at this time,
we have been unable to use a PVC-free compound, although we continue to
search for an alternative. We have found that all packaging materials
have a negative aspect, but we make our best efforts to determine which
is the less harmful.
In our unique manufacturing process, the tomatoes are pasteurized before
they are filled in the jar and without the lid. That means that when the
lid is adhered, the temperature has already cooled. It may be possible
for PVC to migrate into food by direct contact and at certain
temperatures, but we are far below these temperatures and there is no
contact of the tomatoes with the lid during our production cycle. We
have never found any level of PVC in the finished product. You must also
consider that the percentage of surface area of the lid compared to the
glass is very small and we therefore feel glass bottles are the purest
packaging. Other packaging options for tomatoes, mainly tin cans and
Tetrapak, are entirely lined with plastics that have direct contact with
a much higher percentage of the food.
Thank you for your interest in this very important issue.
Thank you for your interest in our products.
All the best,
bionaturae Customer Service Relations
info@bionaturae.com