Sainsbury's Taste the Difference Sugocasa

The idea of branding sauces as "Taste the difference" is very smart. With so many similar products on offer these days, the idea of being able to taste something different is appealing. Sainsbury Tomato sauce "taste the difference" is made with fresh ingredients and is meant to bring you a nice tasting tomato sauce for your pasta and Pizza. It is also good value for money at 1.15 for 700 ml. To open it, just turn the cap, it is not hard. I suggest you shake the bottle before opening it, but make sure you let the sauce settle before you go into action. You can use the sauce as it is, if you want to put it on pasta. It ...

Lovely idea. The problem is that there are 9.3grams of salt in every jar, which makes it almost inedible. That also represents 155% of the RDA for salt. In one apparently healthy jar! The last time I had some as a 'healthy' sauce to pour on my (Sainsbury's) pasta, thinking that I would also catch up on some of my five units of fruit &and veg, I tasted it & then threw the lot away. There was so much salt in it that I nearly gagged. The surprising thing is that there is no mention of the vast quantities of salt in the sauce on the front of the label, simply a description that can be summarised as 'lovely fresh tomatoes mixed with not so lovely tomatoes, to ...

What is sugocasa? No, it's not some new kind of confectionary house. To sum it up: sugocasa is a kind of posh preserved tomatoes. It's a sauce, made with fresh fruits with a blend of herbs and just a smidge of garlic, which possesses a lovely vibrant, red colour. One look at it and you know this is a product that's going to be very, very good for you indeed. Sainsburys Taste the Difference sugocasa comes in an absolutely giant 700g glass bottle, with a twist off lid. Unfortunately, this is put on the jar rather tightly. Be warned: do not do what I did and turn the jar almost upside down in your attempt to open it, unless you want to give your partner ...