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Number 2, Canned tomatoes. Canned tomatoes, tomato sauce, and tomato paste deserve attention because the 2026 processing tomato signal is much stronger than a normal grocery price complaint. The important word here is processing. These are not the same tomatoes that people slice for sandwiches. Processing tomatoes are grown for paste, sauce, crushed tomatoes, diced tomatoes, canned tomato products, and many shelf stable meals. When that crop tightens, the effect can spread across a lot of produc