Guide

Understanding Pizza Sauce

March 4, 2010

Barring rare exception, the key ingredient tying together the nation's pizza stores is tomato sauce. Pizza sauces can be as varied as the pizzas themselves with the consumer tasting subtle differences in the consistency and sweetness of the sauce. This guide discusses these differences, which can stem from the added spices, the process used to peel the tomatoes or how the water was removed from the tomatoes used in the sauce.