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Sauces & Pastes Wholesale — Toronto & the GTA
Levant Direct quotes Zer's tomato paste and pomegranate molasses dressing wholesale to Toronto restaurant and catering kitchens. It's a small, two-line category today, and we'd rather say that plainly than dress it up — what makes it worth its own page is the format range behind those two lines, from a 400 g tin up to a 4.5 kg catering size.
Both come from Zer Group in Türkiye, whose Bursa, Aydın and Manisa facilities process 7,500 tons of tomatoes daily during the season — a scale that keeps a large-format catering tin available alongside a standard retail-style one, which is unusual for a supplier this size.
من الرفوف From the shelves
تركيا · Türkiye · Gaziantep — Zer Group
Zer Tomato PasteZer معجون طماطم
400 g tin (x24) · 800 g tin (x12) · 4.5 kg tin (x3)
تركيا · Türkiye · Gaziantep — Zer Group
Zer Pomegranate Sauce (Pomegranate Molasses Dressing)دبس الرمان
345 g PET bottle (x15) · 1000 g PET bottle (x12) · 340 ml glass bottle (x12)
Formats & case sizes
| Line | Formats |
|---|---|
| Zer Tomato Paste | 400 g tin (x24), 800 g tin (x12), 4.5 kg tin (x3) |
| Zer Pomegranate Sauce (molasses dressing) | 315 g PET bottle (x15), 1 L PET bottle (x12) |
A two-line category, honestly framed
Tomato paste is the kitchen base — stews, sauces, shawarma marinades — and comes tinned rather than in glass, which is why it sits in this category rather than in canned & preserves alongside Lio's glass-jar tomato paste. Pomegranate molasses (dibs rumman) is the second line: a reduced pomegranate syrup used across Levant mountain cooking, its classic application being muhammara, the walnut-and-pepper dip, per Slow Food's Ark of Taste catalogue. We carry it as Zer's finished pomegranate sauce dressing rather than raw molasses.
Case and bottle formats — the reason this hub exists
Every per-SKU search term for this range is already covered elsewhere on the site, so what earns this page its own place is the format spread: tomato paste from a 400 g tin through to a 4.5 kg catering tin, and pomegranate sauce in a 315 g bottle or a full-litre bottle. A kitchen sizing a standing order can move up the table without switching supplier or product line.
Where Zer's tomato paste comes from
Zer's group facilities in Bursa, Aydın and Manisa process 7,500 tons of in-season tomatoes daily, and the finished paste is exported worldwide under ISO certification — a scale that's part of why the catering-size 4.5 kg tin is available at all rather than a one-off packing run.
Pairing sauces and pastes with the rest of a kitchen order
Kitchens ordering tomato paste from this page often quote olives & pickles in the same inquiry — pomegranate molasses dressing and olives sit together on most Levantine mezze tables. If your kitchen prefers tomato paste in glass rather than tin, or in smaller retail-style jars, see Lio's line in canned & preserves and our glass-versus-tin comparison for the trade-offs.
Buying questions, answered
What's the difference between this tomato paste and the one in your canned goods category?
This page carries Zer's tinned tomato paste, including a 4.5 kg catering size; canned & preserves carries Lio's glass-jar tomato paste in smaller retail-style sizes. See our glass-versus-tin comparison for which suits your kitchen.
What's pomegranate molasses dressing used for?
Traditionally reduced from pomegranate juice, it's a Levant mountain staple used in dressings, glazes and — classically — muhammara, the walnut-and-red-pepper dip. We carry it as Zer's finished pomegranate sauce.
What case sizes are available?
Tomato paste in 400 g (x24), 800 g (x12) or 4.5 kg (x3) tins; pomegranate sauce in 315 g (x15) or 1 L (x12) PET bottles — see the format table above.
Is there a catering-size tomato paste?
Yes — a 4.5 kg tin, three to a case, alongside the standard 400 g and 800 g tins.