Commercial Supplier

Tomato Ingredients

Available Formats:

Tomato Puree, Paste.

Available From:

Our fruit ingredients are always sourced from the earth’s prime growing regions. Contact us to learn more.

Harvest Seasons:

Tomatoes grow in both hemispheres all year long.

Tomato Puree, Tomato Paste

Tomatoes are round or slightly oval fruits that grow on flowering plants in the nightshade family (Solanaceae), native to western South America. They come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and colors, including red, yellow, orange, and even purple. Our customers use tomato puree and tomato paste for a large variety of food and beverage productions.

Botanically classified as fruits, tomatoes have a juicy interior filled with seeds and a thin skin. The plants grow as vines or bushes and thrive in warm climates with plenty of sunlight. Tomatoes were domesticated in the Americas and later spread worldwide, becoming one of the most widely cultivated and consumed crops.

Tomato Formats and Varieties

Roma, Round and More

We source high-quality Roma (Plum) and Round (Beefstep/Ace) tomato varieties, selections optimized for structural yield and soluble solids. The Roma tomato, universally recognized as the backbone of the industrial processing sector, features thick outer walls, low internal seed cavities, and exceptionally high pectin content. This makes it the premier variety for high-yield Hot Break Tomato Paste and thick, uniform purees. For formulations requiring a brighter acid-to-sugar balance and vibrant color profiles for liquid beverage lines, we utilize specialized Round processing varieties, prized for their high juice yield and exceptional color extraction under Cold Break parameters.

By sourcing these processing-specific tomato variates directly from optimal agricultural regions (including California’s Central Valley, Italy, and Spain), we guarantee consistent Brix-to-acid ratios, strict lycopene color compliance, and complete lot traceability for your industrial supply chain.

Our Tomato Ingredients

For Food and Beverages

Produced by finely milling and screening fresh tomatoes to remove skins and seeds, industrial Tomato Puree is a single-strength or lightly concentrated fluid format. It retains a vibrant red color, a fresh, pourable consistency, and a balanced, bright acidity. Because it contains a higher ratio of native water, it provides an authentic, house-made texture and a clean flavor profile that requires minimal cooking time to develop.

  • Premium Culinary & Beverage Pipelines: Premium bloody mary mixers, artisanal pizza sauces, pourable pasta sauces, and refrigerated gazpacho bases where a fresh, non-cooked flavor and smooth fluid dynamics are required.

  • Prepared Meals & Soups: High-throughput filling lines for ready-to-eat tomato soups, multi-component frozen dinners, and fresh salsa preps requiring uniform moisture distribution without heavy binding.

The undisputed industrial powerhouse of the savory manufacturing sector, Tomato Paste is produced by evaporating the moisture from tomato juice under a strict vacuum. It is highly concentrated and standardized into a dense, shelf-stable paste. It delivers an intense concentration of soluble solids, natural glutamates (umami), and deeply developed color, making it highly logistically efficient for international shipping and bulk ambient storage.

  • Mass-Market Condiments & Sauces: Industrial ketchup pipelines, highly viscous barbecue sauces, concentrated marinades, and retail pizza/pasta sauce bases where it serves as a structural foundation.

  • Savory Base Matrices: Dehydrated snack seasonings, structural binders for plant-based meat alternatives, canned stews, and savory gravies requiring maximum umami depth and water-binding capacity.

Tomato Puree, Tomato Paste

More About Tomato Formats

The primary difference lies in the concentration of soluble solids (measured as Brix) and the resulting viscosity:

  • Tomato Puree: Made by straining cooked tomatoes to remove skins and seeds, and slightly concentrating the liquid to a pourable, smooth consistency (typically 8°–14° Brix). It retains a fresh-cooked flavor profile and is ready to use as a direct liquid base.

  • Tomato Paste: Cooked for an extended period and heavily evaporated under a vacuum to remove bulk water weight, resulting in a thick, semi-solid concentrate (typically 28°–36° Brix). It delivers highly concentrated flavor, deep umami, and structural density.

This is the most critical technical distinction for food formulators, determined by the temperature used during the initial milling process:

  • Hot Break Paste: The tomatoes are rapidly heated to ultra-high temperatures immediately upon crushing. This deactivates the fruit’s native enzymes, preserving the natural long-chain pectin polymers. The result is a remarkably thick paste with high water-binding capacity.

  • Cold Break Paste: The tomatoes are crushed and heated at a lower temperature, allowing natural enzymes to break down some of the pectin. This results in a less viscous, more fluid paste that features an intensely bright red color and a fresher, more forward tomato flavor.

The choice depends entirely on the required texture and stability of your final product:

  • Choose Hot Break for: Thicker sauces, barbecue sauces, gravies, and stews. Its intact pectin network acts as a natural stabilizer, preventing syneresis (water separation) and ensuring a rich, heavy mouthfeel without adding starches or gums.

  • Choose Cold Break for: Reconstitution into commercial tomato juices, retail ketchups, pizza sauces, and thin pasta sauces where a vibrant crimson color and a brighter, more fluid pouring characteristic are required.

Tomato Puree offers an ideal, homogenous solution for manufacturers looking for immediate flavor and consistency. Because it is already strained and lightly concentrated, it eliminates the processing steps of washing, peeling, and de-seeding in your facility. It provides the perfect, balanced moisture and color matrix for mass-market pasta sauces, pizza toppings, and ready-to-eat blended vegetable soups.

Hosh International supplies nearly every major food and beverage manufacturer across the country with high-quality tomato ingredients.
Products from Hosh International can be sourced as USDA Organic.

Tomato Ingredients can be supplied as organic upon request

The Brothers International

Quality Promise

Brothers International and its 4 divisions, Brothers Ingredients, Dennick Fruit Source, Hosh International and Food Partners, are trusted global importers of premium ingredients to major food and beverage manufacturers in North America. We deliver consistent quality and supply across every format the industry demands. Our tomato are sourced from the earth’s prime growing regions where farming expertise, climate and soil composition come together to produce tomato of exceptional caliber. All of our suppliers undergo a rigorous vetting process to ensure we work with only the highest-quality processors and can fully guarantee traceability, sustainability, and compliance with all international regulations.

Each of our divisions has a specialized operations team to manage shipments and coordinate with customers and suppliers. They work closely with our in-house customs team to ensure efficient clearance, and collaborate with the USDA and FDA to maintain full regulatory compliance. This ensures your ingredients move seamlessly through every stage of import, arriving on time and ready for production with complete confidence. With decades of sourcing expertise and a strong commitment to customer success, you can count on Brothers International to deliver the premium ingredients your products require.

Hosh International is your source for all things tomato products, including tomato puree and tomato paste.

Industry Glossery

A Reference Guide for Fruit Ingredient Terminology

Check out our glossary for a consolidated reference of commonly used terminology across the global fruit ingredient industry. It provides straightforward definitions and context for the language and concepts referenced throughout the industry.