The ones I buy contain lemon for preservation, but I don’t like the acidic taste of lemon in tomato sauce.

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Tomatoes are acidic, baking soda is alkaline, sugar is neutral. Adding baking soda to canned tomatoes will neutralize the acid but won’t change the taste too much (depending on the amount). Adding sugar won’t change the acidity of tomatoes but will greatly change the taste.

From my personal experience, adding sugar to a simmering tomato sauce for long enough that sugar caramelizes, will make the sauce way better.

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Sugar - it doesn’t neutralise but mask the sourness, so the resulting taste is a bit more interesting. Bicarbonate will truly neutralise it but the result is a boring sauce.

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I use both depending on the mood, but I noticed that baking soda neutralises the taste of tomato whereas sugar neutralises the acidic taste.

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yeah, baking soda works but you have to be careful with the amount you put in them or they’ll taste very bland after…

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Coco powder is an option I use as well. A little bit will change the flavor in a nice way. (this is often the secret to real Mexican food)

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This is what my mama and old southern grandma swear by. Makes for really great chili

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Similarly, instant coffee can really take a dish up a notch. Looking at you, jambalaya.

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buy fresh tomatoes?

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To be fair, if OP lives in the northern hemisphere, the season for Tomatoes is over, so it’s hard to get fresh tomatoes that doesn’t taste like water

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I live fairly up north and can confirm that fresh tomatoes do taste like water, even in summer.

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Nah, you aren’t going to buy fresh tomatoes and get the same results. They get picked too early 99% of the time when it’s for stores, so you end up with better results using canned (be it store bought or home canned).

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