Tomato Conversions & Equivalents
I seem to have a lot of trouble remembering how to convert some ingredients. How many cups of dry beans convert to how many ounces of cooked beans is always hard for me to remember. The same is true with tomatoes.
I needed to know how many ounces of fresh tomatoes are there in a 32 ounce of canned tomatoes. The reason you need to know these conversions is because some recipes give you the tomatoes fresh, some canned, some as tomato paste.
You may not be able to get your hands on some fresh tomatoes out of season so you resort to canned. Doesn’t matter, here are tomato conversions that may be useful to you when cooking.
Of course all this varies depending on the type of tomato you are referring to, but this will give you a good ballpark figure.
Tomato Conversions
| 1 small tomato | = | 3 – 4 ounces |
| 1 medium tomato | = | 5 – 6 ounces |
| 1 large tomato | = | 7 ounces |
| 1 cherry tomato | = | ½ – 2 ounces |
| 3 medium round tomatoes | = | 1 pound |
| 8 plum tomatoes | = | 1 pound |
| 15 – 20 cherry tomatoes | = | 1 pound |
| 25 to 30 cherry tomatoes | yields | 2 cups chopped |
| 1 pound fresh tomatoes | yields | 1½ cups chopped |
| 1 pound fresh tomatoes | yields | 3 cups pureed |
| 2½ pounds fresh tomatoes | yields | 3 cups chopped, drained |
| 2½ pounds fresh tomatoes | yields | 2½ cups seeded, chopped cooked |
| 2 cups chopped tomatoes | = | 1 pound |
| 1 (14½ ounce) can tomatoes | = | 5 to 6 whole or about 1 pound |
| 1 (16 ounce) can tomatoes | = | 2 cups |
| 1 (28 ounce) can tomatoes | = | 3 cups |
| 1 (28 ounce) can tomatoes | = | 10 to 12 whole or about 2 pounds |
| 1 (35 ounce) can tomatoes | = | 4 cups |
| 1 bushel of tomatoes | = | 53 – 56 pounds |
| 1 bushel of tomatoes | = | 30 quarts |
Tomato Paste Conversions
| 3/8 cup tomato paste + ½ cup water | = | 1 cup tomato sauce |
| 1 (6 ounce) can tomato paste | yields | ¾ cup |
Other Important Ingredient Conversions
| BEAN CONVERSIONS | INGREDIENT SUBSTITUTIONS |
| HERB CONVERSIONS | MUSHROOM CONVERSIONS |
| GRAIN CONVERSIONS | PASTA/RICE CONVERSIONS |
| INGREDIENT CONVERSIONS | TOMATO CONVERSIONS |
I am wondering, if I dehydrate 8 medium tomatoes, how much tomato powder should I expect?
One bushel gave me one pint.
I use one 6 oz Tomato Paste to 1 cup water for 14 oz of Tomato Sauce.
I grow my own tomatoes and roast them off when I have enough ripe ones. My question is what is the ratio of roasted tomatoes to fresh chopped tomatoes?
Hi Cassie, great question and one I had to research a little. I found a recipe from Mark Bittman for roasted tomatoes that calls for 24 fresh plum tomatoes that yields 2 cups of roasted tomatoes. Since there are about 8 plum tomatoes per pound, that means 24 plum tomatoes equals around 3 pounds of fresh plum tomatoes. So I’m going to say 3 pounds of fresh plum tomatoes chopped should yield about 2 cups roasted. If anyone has a better conversion, please share.
1 (28 ounces) can tomatoes = 10 to 12 whole or about 2 pounds
Please explain how 10 to 12 fresh tomatoes is equal to 2 lbs. Most often one tomato is equal to one pound. By your metric, if I substitute fresh for canned 30 lbs of fresh tomatoes is equal to 15 (28 ounces) of canned tomatoes.
Hi Rose, thanks for pointing this out. Most canned tomatoes are plum tomatoes which are not nearly as big as steak tomatoes that can be huge and possibly weigh around a pound. Try buying a 28 ounce can of tomatoes and count how many are in there. You may be surprised.
I was wondering how many tomatoes are used in one container of store bought tomato sauce. This is because I need to know how high the vegetable : junk ratio is… I want to know how much sauce I need to have an accurate supplement for real vegetables.
How many cups of tomatoe juice will an 11qt basket of tomatoes yield?
Hi Cheryl, check out http://www.pickyourown.org/info.htm. From my research on the net, I learned “3 pounds tomatoes yield one quart of juice”. So the question is how many pounds of tomatoes in an 11 quart basket?
I have an old recipe of my grandmothers I’m trying to convert? Lol
How much pasta sauce is equivalent to 5-6 roma tomatoes?
How many tomatoes do I need to make a gallon of them.
Hello, I am growing super sweet tomatoes in the fall and will make salsa. Does 1 pint equal one pound? Approximate. thank you.
A pint of water weighs about a pound but you are asking about tomatoes. Hmmm. It really depends on the size of the tomatoes and how many can fit into a pint container. And how are they processed? Whole, sliced, chopped, etc. Also, you realize pints are volume measurement and not weight measurement so it is a little confusing. I found a site that discovered 1 pound is equal to 25 to 30 cherry tomatoes, 8 plum tomatoes or 3 medium round tomatoes. I’m going to guess there are about 18 to 20 cherry tomatoes in a pint so that means no, 1 pint does not equal 1 pound.
I have a recipe using 1 gallon of tomatoes. Approximately how many medium tomatoes is that?
Hi Theresa, the problem with converting a gallon of tomatoes to whole medium tomatoes is you are trying to convert liquid measurement to weight measurement. If you could tell me the weight of that gallon tomatoes, we could easily convert.
How many pounds of tomatoes in 2/3 bushel?
Hi Carlene, 1 bushel of tomatoes equals 56 pounds so 2/3 of a bushel would be about 37 pounds.
Can I use tomato paste to make tomato juice to use in a recipe?
Hi Marilyn, I have never made tomato juice from tomato paste but I did a little research and it appears you can. For every can of tomato paste, add four cans of water. If you give it a try, please let me know your results.
I would like to know how many pounds of tomatoes does an 11 quart basket hold?
Hi Anne, a bushel of tomatoes weighs about 56 pounds. There are about 30 quarts per bushel so that means 30 quarts weighs about 56 pounds. That means one quart weighs about 1.87 pounds so 11 quarts should equal around 20 pounds if I’m doing my math correctly.
I have a recipe for salsa that call for 30 tomatoes . I have an assortment of San marzano and plum. I’m tripling the recipe so want this to be consistent. How many pounds do you think 30 tomatoes would equal? Right now I’m figuring 2 plums =one Med size tomato and most San marzano = one
I have a recipe that calls for 5 quarts of tomatoes – approximately how many tomatoes (field)?
Hi Katherine, let’s see if I can get my math correct here. 1 medium tomato = about 6 ounces. There are 32 ounces in a quart so 5 quarts would be 160 ounces. If you divide 160 ounces by 6 ounces, you get 26.666 tomatoes. You can weigh a few of your field tomatoes to come up with a closer average if you like. Hope this helps.
An error = ha ha! It’s PLUM tomatoes. I suspect Charles E. Mispel ‘gotcha’. Anyway, there is no such thing as far as I know as plumb tomatoes.
Thanks for letting me know and now fixed.
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I’m making spaghetti sauce without meat and all my recipes call for 30 lbs. of tomatoes. I want to use canned crushed tomatoes. How many cans (15 oz.) would equal 30 lbs. tomatoes??
You indicate 1 lb. Of tomatoes yields 3 cups of puree. Since a cup of water weighs 8 oz. and tomato puree is heavier than water, three cups of puree weighs at least 24 oz., or 8 oz. more than the weight of tomatoes you started with. I haven’t measured, but a pound of tomatoes yields more like 2 cups of puree, at most.