PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a tomato-processed material such as tomato sauce, etc., having a good color tone with a fresh tomato red color, and a method for producing the same. SOLUTION: This method for producing the tomato-processed material is characterized by separating tomato raw materials containing mainly the tomato and oil raw materials containing mainly oil, heat-treating the tomato raw materials, then adding the oil raw materials, heat-treating under a condition without discoloring the red color pigment of the tomato and agitate/mix-treating moderately. The tomato-processed material obtained by separating the tomato raw materials containing mainly the tomato and the oil raw materials containing mainly the oil, heat-treating the tomato raw materials, then adding the oil raw materials, heat-treating and also agitate/mix-treating has≥1.4 range (a/b) value color tone measured by a spectrometric measuring method (2 degree range of vision, lighting and light-receiving conditions: n-45) by using a second type spectrophotometer. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
