Does it?

>>21469328 (OP)
You put a small amount in the sauce to balance the acidity. But obese Americans take it too far and dump a whole bag of sugar making it disgustingly sweet. Ragu is pure disgusting tomato flavored sugar water.

>>21469328 (OP)
Spaghetti is a type of pasta not the name of a dish.
Retard.

>>21469333
We can debate the quality but it barely has added sugar.

>>21469339
>8 teaspoons of sugar isn't that much

>>21469345
uh oh looks like we got a ketoschizophrenic episode over here

Sweetness is Crutch: The Flavour

>>21469347
>ad hominem
not an argument. That entire can of sauce contains almost as much sugar as a can of soda

>>21469345
That's not what I said. We were talking about added sugar. It has less than 1g of added sugar per serving so there's like a teaspoon of added sugar for the entire container.

Saying that tomatoes are too sugary and bad for you is nonsense.

>>21469347
>>21469339
8g in 1/2cup. A pepsi has 40g in 1.5cups. Ragu is literally more than half the sugar concentration of a can of soda. It is closer to a soda than not.

>>21469357
What's your point? The majority of the sugar is still naturally provided by the tomatoes and not from added refined sugar.

only shredded carrot if you want sweetness

>>21469361
Cooking the onion for a long time will also make it sweeter.

>>21469328 (OP)
I worked for a family Italian specialty food shop that's been open over a hundred years at this point. Probably the biggest gripe I heard was how shit tomato sauce is with even a touch of sugar.

That's what the caramelized onions are for. Only nigs and other shades of brown put sugar in because their taste buds are fried from eating rancid food all the time.

>>21469333
I am an american and I add a little baking soda to reduce the acidity.

I don't think any spaghetti on earth has any added sugar in it at all whatsoever so the answer is an obvious "no" and you are an obvious homosexual. Or a fat, smelly, brown lardgolem who doesn't actually know what the word spaghetti means.

>>21469328 (OP)
I am American and I don't add sugar but I do add loads of High Fructose Corn Syrup.
It's the American way.

>>21469360
retard-kun the point is that sometimes canned tomatoes are acidic in a way that uncanned tomatoes are not, so it's necessary to add something *in addition* to the natural amount to counteract it.

>>21469345
>clearly states "less than 1g of added sugars"
>euro can't read
many such cases.

>>21469328 (OP)
you just cook the sauce so it reduces and activates the sugars.

>>21469418
That wasn't the point at all of the poster claiming Ragu has a huge amount of added sugar.

>>21469432
>less than a gram is a huge amount

>>21469430
>activates the sugars
Sugar can't be activated. It's either there or not.

>>21469328 (OP)
No, it shouldn't need it. With just carrots and onions, hell even certain seasonings, you can temper the acidity of cheap tomatoes. I never add sugar to mine and I use canned/fresh tomatoes all the time.

Not saying it won't taste good though. I loved sugary store bought tomato sauces growing up.

>>21469449
>>21469430
Yep. Only almonds can be activated.

>>21469449
>Sugar can't be activated
what do you think maillard reaction is?

>>21469333
>>21469339
nta, so I checked the websites for Ragu, Prego, and Bertolli (popular american brands), and the vast majority of the them have 2 or 3 grams of added sugar for 1/2 cup. With 5 servings, that's 10-15g, or 2-4 tsp of sugar per jar (3 tsp = 1 tb). Lots of the ones labeled "Traditional" or higher end trademarks like kettle cooked or old world, were 0-1g sugar, as it's part of the branding for those particular products, so 0-1 tsp of sugar. A good couple of em were 4g, which is 5 tsp of sugar per jar.

Most of the time, the total sugars was around 7g or so. But for like at least two, they went up to like 11g, and for these the added sugar was never specified even though sugar was on the ingredient list, kek.

I didn't look at the non-tomato ones.

>>21469524
popular cause they're cheap

>>21469466
It's not creating sugar out of nowhere.

>>21469333
Wrong.
If you're making a Bolognese (but that's a primarily meat based sauce with a small amount of tomatoe for "richness") - carrots and onions provide the "balance"
If you're making a Neapolitan type tomato sauce, you use sweeter tomatoes (or just deal with the slight acidity)

>>21469387
For me, it's Sodium Hydroxide, that way I have to add even less, and it even salts the sauce from the reaction.

>>21469336
>He doesn't add sugar and oil to his pasta water

it depends on if you're a flip or not

Depending on your tomatoes it may or may not be necessary, but I have never needed to add sugar to my tomato sauce.

>>21469360
The point is probably that's why Ragu brand tastes like disgusting garbage

>>21469643
So it needs more added sugar?

>>21469336
I prefer angel hair spaghetti, myself

>>21469328 (OP)
No and only Filipinx disagree

A little bit, sure. Although I usually add sweet balsamic instead

>>21469426
not sure where you got euro from, you eternally seething mutt

>>21469328 (OP)
fuck no absolutely not
>>21469333
no it doesn't need any sugar, get better tomatoes

>>21469328 (OP)
I regularly have fruit with spaghetti. The sugar belongs outside of the spaghetti.

>>21469333
I never understood trying to balance the acidity. It's fine if your tomato sauce is acidic, imo it tastes better that way.

>>21469328 (OP)
Not if you use those.

>>21469692
a lot of canned tomatoes will have citric acid added and it can be a bit much

are these threads actually by bots

for what reason?

>>21469692
There is a difference between balancing out excess acidity and nullifying any acidity at all.

>>21469706
I've never made a tomato sauce that I've had to balance out the acidity. Neither has my mother, or grandmother.
I don't know what you guys are doing when you're making your sauce.

>>21469333
Whenever I get lazy and buy canned sauce it’s always disgustingly sweet. It’s a problem at pizza chains too.

>>21469526
>"activate sugars" was posted
>somehow he reads "creates sugars"
what kind of psychosis sees words that aren't there?

>>21469662
>mutt
like everybody on earth after 1100ad?
lrn2history
your time on this website is over, euro.

>>21469710
>making your sauce
>making
they crack the jar of ragu and pour it cold on top of warm pasta.

>>21469786
Again, sugar doesn't magically turn up in your slop.

>>21469808
He's talking about breaking down complex carbs into simple sugars you dense faggot
Even ESL's would've picked up on that by now

>>21469814
>falling for ancient food myths

>>21469828
>when cooked onions get sweet, that's the sugar fairy sprinkling sugar in your pan :)

>>21469831
Onions contain 4 g sugar per 100 g. You also destroy the (at least for faggots) unpleasant substances so the flavour in general is on the sweeter side.
A raw onion is still sweet too. Nothing to "activate" there.

>>21469839
I don't know how to explain to you any further that starches and different fructose structures can be broken down into simple fructose and glucose by heat.
Goodbye, retard-kun.

>>21469849
You're mixing that up with brown sugar.

>>21469361
Yep carrots are the way. They also add great flavor and absorb a ton of flavor. But God damn make sure you peel the fucker

>>21469328 (OP)
idk man. My mom used to tell me that only the tip of a teaspoon with sugar was necessary to avoid it causing acidity on sensitive people.

i always forget to add sugar to my tomato sauce even to this day, and only very rarely have any problem. Still, her tomato sauce is the best.

>>21469328 (OP)
depends on your tomatoes. If they need sugar add sugar. That's it.

It may be used to balance it at the end.
I usually get enough sweetness from the carrots but sometimes it needs little more, at which point I add honey because it feels less degenerate than plain sugar but I can't say if that makes any difference.

>>21469357
Then humans closer are to soda because the body grams 4 or sugar given any time

>>21469328 (OP)
No the fuck it does not.

>>21469328 (OP)
Only if youre black, eastern European or poor. These are the only people who put sugar in their sauce

>>21469640
>filipino's are
>filipino is are

tarded

>>21469640
that's banana ketchup not tomato sauce

>>21469361
fuck no
newmans tastes like shit now they cut it with carrot

>>21471623
That’s part of why that image is so funny

>>21469386
The truth laid unacknowledged by those savages.

>>21469328 (OP)
Personally I use honey. Not the American syrup but actual honey that's local.

>>21469637
Why would you do such a thing?
You add the oil after you mixed pasta and sauce. Pasta water only needs a bit of salt.

>>21469353
that's not an ad hominem, faggot

>>21469328 (OP)
my mama always used sugar in her homemade sauce but only a couple tablespoons nothing crazy

>>21472539
>calling someone a schizo isn't an ad hom
lol, lmao

>>21469636
this dumbass is eating soapy sauces

>>21469339
people are disagreeing with this guy when it's fucking <1g added sugar. 4chan tards try so hard to be contrarian it's absurd

>>21469328 (OP)
>sugar
i use a cup of milk instead. same same but differen

I always thought tomatoes were naturally sweet enough as it is; between those and the onions that no doubt will be in the sauce somewhere, it has plenty of sugar.
If you want to reduce acidity just put in a pinch of baking soda.
Tomato sauce does not need sugar in it