Turkish Tomato Paste Wholesale: Gaziantep Tins

The formats: from a grocery case to a catering tin

The 4.5 kg tin is worth flagging on its own — it's a genuine catering-scale format that many thin listings for this category simply don't carry, and it's the one worth asking about if you're provisioning a full kitchen rather than a retail shelf.

Concentration and Brix: confirmed on quotation, not claimed here

We're not stating a concentration or Brix figure on this page, and we're specifically not describing this as "double concentrated" — that's a claim tied to a precise, testable spec, and the accurate figure for a given lot is confirmed when you quote, not published as a blanket number here. If concentration matters for your recipe costing, say so on your inquiry and we'll confirm it against the actual stock before you commit to a case.

What the label states, and what we can't add to it

The product's own listing describes it as halal and ISO certified, exported worldwide — we're passing that description along as the manufacturer states it. As with any halal claim, though, the certifying detail relevant to your specific order is worth confirming on quotation rather than treated as a blanket guarantee here.

Turkish vs. Syrian: two tomato-paste lines, one pantry decision

Alongside the Zer tin, we also carry Lio Tomato Paste from Syria in glass jars. The two aren't interchangeable in every kitchen — glass shows the product and reseals cleanly for partial use, while the Turkish tin scales further, up to that 4.5 kg catering size. Our full glass-vs-tin comparison walks through the decision in detail; this page exists so the Turkish line has its own home for buyers searching it by name.

A kitchen running genuinely high volume — a shawarma or kebab operation going through paste daily — is usually the buyer who benefits most from the 4.5 kg tin specifically; a lower-turnover kitchen or a grocery reorder is often better served by the 400 g or 800 g formats, where an opened tin gets used up before quality is a concern.

Storage once a tin is opened

Once opened, transfer any unused paste to a sealed container and refrigerate it rather than leaving it in the tin, and use it within a reasonably short window — tomato paste concentrates flavour and spoils faster once exposed to air than the sealed tin does on the shelf. For a kitchen working through the smaller 400 g format regularly, this is rarely an issue; it matters more with the larger 4.5 kg catering tin, where portioning into smaller containers as you go is the more practical approach than repeatedly opening and resealing the full tin.

Ordering by the case, from Türkiye

This is an imported line, and the same general import rules apply regardless of which country a product ships from — see importing food from Turkey to Canada if you're weighing sourcing it yourself versus buying through a licensed Canadian distributor. For the fuller Zer Group profile, see Gaziantep food brands in Canada. One inquiry covers whatever mix of formats you need, quoted together — see how inquiry-based ordering works.