Tomato paste and sauce
AssigneeLipton
InventorsNancy Sue Blaker, Jinguo Hu, Adel El-Sheikh
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Abstract
Homozygous rin and/or nor tomatoes, or tomatoes heterozygous in both rin and nor are used to prepare a tomato paste, juice or sauce having good viscosity as well as good color. Preferably the tomatoes used also include color enhancing genes such as old gold crimson (ogc), high pigment (hp), dark green (dg), intense pigment (Ip), or color enhancing transgenic genes.
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A tomato paste comprising tomatoes having homozygous mutant rin genes, homozygous mutant nor genes or tomatoes heterozygous in both rin and nor genes.
A sauce comprising tomatoes having homozygous mutant rin genes, homozygous mutant nor genes or tomatoes heterozygous in both rin and nor genes.
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