Thank you, @JamaicaMama80 on Instagram, for asking Rach a question we're all bluntly very interested in knowing the correct answer to:

QUESTION: How long does an opened tube of tomato paste last in the fridge?

RACHAEL'S Reply: "You have to exist careful and curlicue it upwards from the bottom — just similar toothpaste — and get all the air out. Air is what would make that spoil or get a piffling funky on you.

"And you want to make sure that the tube itself when yous buy information technology is not busted on the cease. So I literally open the box and look at it. You want to brand sure that the integrity of the original bundle that you're buying, that it's intact when you bring information technology habitation."

But all in all she says, "Basically, if you protect it from air, information technology will keep for several months."

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So there y'all take it! Do your tube rolling skills and you'll exist in skilful shape with your tomato paste for quite some fourth dimension. Thank you, Rach!

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