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I cook a lot of Italian dishes. My wife likes tomato sauce, but can't stand chunky tomato flesh. And so I have learned to make these dishes with strained tomatoes.

Recently I came across a recipe that called for diced tomatoes, and canned tomato sauce. I replaced the diced tomatoes with strained tomatoes and noticed that it looks a lot like the tomato sauce. They seem remarkably similar.

Are these two products the same? If not, how do they differ?

Jason P Sallinger
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Thanks for the guidance, gidds and Chris H.

I looked up the ingredients for each:

Tomato Sauce

https://www.instacart.com/products/144591-redpack-tomato-sauce-8-oz

Ingredients: Tomato Puree (water, Tomato Paste From Vine-ripened Tomatoes), Water, Less Than 2% Of: Salt, Onion Powder, Garlic Powder, Citric Acid*, Natural Flavors, Dehydrated Bell Pepper.

Strained Tomatoes

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Pomi-Strained-Tomatoes/767465693

Ingredients: Tomatoes, Strained

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