Superior-quality pizza sauce begins and ends with superior-tasting, fresh tomatoes. Our tomatoes are grown in the rich, fertile valleys of central California. The tomatoes are harvested each summer when they are at the peak of their ripeness.

Papa John’s takes extra care (and incurs extra cost) to make sure the tomatoes used to make our sauce go from the vine to the can in an average of six hours, producing a just-picked fresh tomato flavor. Our sauce contains only natural ingredients- fresh tomatoes, a blend of sunflower and extra virgin olive oil, sugar, salt, oregano, spices and citric acid.

Tomato sauce facts:

• Packed from fresh, vine-ripened tomatoes
• The tomatoes used to make our sauce go from the vine to the can in an average of six hours
• Tomatoes are harvested only once a year at the peak of ripeness
• Processed using minimal time and temperature
• Water is never added to our sauce