Hunt's

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Hunt's is the name of a brand of preserved tomato products owned by ConAgra Foods, Inc. It was founded as the Hunt Brothers Fruit Packing Company in 1890 in Santa Rosa, California by Joseph and William Hunt. This small canning operation grew rapidly, focused on canning the products of California's booming fruit and vegetable industries. In 1943, Hunt's was taken over by Val Vita Food Products - a competing firm founded in the early 1930s, The merged firm kept the Hunt's name and incorporated as Hunt Foods, Inc. The new management decided to focus the company on canned tomato products, particularly prepared tomato sauce.

Hunt's later merged with Wesson cooking oil to form Hunt-Wesson Foods, which later merged with Beatrice Foods. The brand was sold to ConAgra along with many other former Beatrice brands in 1990.

Besides canned tomato sauce, the Hunt's brand appears on tomato paste, diced, whole, stewed and crushed tomatoes, spaghetti sauce, ketchup, barbeque sauce and their Family Favorites line of canned recipe helpers. It is also the brandname appearing on ConAgra's Manwich brand products and sloppy joes as well as Hunt's Snack Pack Pudding.