Natural Sun-Dried Tomato Powder Ground Sun Dried Tomato

Our Natural Sun-Dried Tomatoes are lightly salted to aid the drying process but contain no other ingredients. They range from rich brick-red to deep red-brown in color. Select Sun-Dried Tomato halves are ground into powder and sifted through the #30 mesh screen. The powder is a rich brick-red color. The drying process helps our Sun-Dried Tomatoes capture and intensify all the great, summery flavors of fully ripe, fresh tomatoes. Sun-Dried Tomatoes may tend to be slightly sweeter than fresh tomatoes as well. Tomatoes have been cultivated for thousands of years by the indigenous peoples of the Andes Mountains. Over time the practice of growing tomatoes for consumption traveled north through Central America and into what is now Mexico and the Southwestern U.S. states. The word "tomato" is thought to come from "tomati," the word used for the fruit in pre-Industrial Mexico. During the 16th and 17th centuries, Spanish and Portuguese explorers brought tomato seeds to Europe. Tomatoes we