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Originally Posted by AlittleSalt
What I have read is to add more lemon juice/citric acid to tone down that sweet taste. I've only made sauce twice and adding lemon juice did help.
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Sauces made with commercial tomato products have sugar/high fructose corn syrup etc. added. If a sauce is too sweet most likely sweetener has bee added (my boss insists that I add sugar to "balance the flavor." Tomato sauce made with fresh grown tomatoes generally are not overly sweet, therefor are more acidic, just like a fresh tomato should be. Frankly, if you just omit the sweetener, you can forego the lemon juice.