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Make Canned Tomatoes Taste Better Using Baking Soda

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By SARAH LINTAKOON

Metal bowl of canned tomatoes
Adding just ¼ teaspoon of baking soda to canned tomatoes can help reduce and neutralize acidity, which can vary highly from brand to brand and even from can to can.
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This trick is handy for recipes that need a nice, smooth flavor, such as tomato soup. It means no more sour, pungent canned tomatoes and an easier cooking process overall.
Canned whole tomatoes in a bowl
The reason it works so well is due to the fact that baking soda is alkaline. Essentially, this means that baking soda works to neutralize and balance acidic compounds.
American actress Margaret Garland (as Space Academy instructor Dr. Joan Dale) helps actor Frankie Thomas (as Tom Corbett) out of a hatch as he wears a spacesuit and helmet on an episode of the CBS science fiction series 'Tom Corbett, Space Cadet,' 1950. (Photo by CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images)
American actress Margaret Garland (as Space Academy instructor Dr. Joan Dale) helps actor Frankie Thomas (as Tom Corbett) out of a hatch as he wears a spacesuit and helmet on an episode of the CBS science fiction series 'Tom Corbett, Space Cadet,' 1950. (Photo by CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images)
American actress Margaret Garland (as Space Academy instructor Dr. Joan Dale) helps actor Frankie Thomas (as Tom Corbett) out of a hatch as he wears a spacesuit and helmet on an episode of the CBS science fiction series 'Tom Corbett, Space Cadet,' 1950. (Photo by CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images)

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