vegetable
Tomatoes
Score
85
Whole vegetable; paste and puree keep most of the lycopene.
Cooking concentrates lycopene, so processed tomato is one of the rare cases where the processed form is not a downgrade.
Also appears on labels as
tomato puree · tomato paste · crushed tomatoes · diced tomatoes
What this is based on
- GrubFacts researchGrubFacts · 2026