Why is spaghetti in a can more like pasta in tomato soup, but they have real tomato sauce in cans and jars?!

look at the ingredients in spahgetti in cans.
Sugar, sugar, and high fructose corn syrup.
Its got so much sugar in it.

If you put cooked pasta in plain tomato sauce it would be horrible.
Not that canned spaghetti is actually nice spaghetti but mostly children eat it.
ALso, pasta is cooked- and once you start putting it in a solution, it goes soft. Pasta should be freshly made and cooked, to be the best tasting. So spaghetti in a can is the most removed from good pasta and still be edible.

Plain tomato sauce with plain cooked pasta in it- you'd need a lot of sugar, honeyk seasonings for it to last on the shelf.

Spaghetti in a can (like Spaghetti O's) are very processed and they make them that way for the flavor. Look at the ingredients in a can of spaghetti and compare them to the ingredients you find in a can of whole, diced or chopped tomatos. You will see that the canned spaghetti has about 30-40 more ingredients than the regular tomatos. Companies do this for flavor.

I love Spaghetti O's

Pasta in a can is marketed toward children. Children like sweet tasting things so the sauce in the can is sweeter.