PURPOSE: To industrially obtain a sarcocarp-containing tomato juice by blending water with tomato sarcocarp retained in a solid state, having a simple taste. CONSTITUTION: Tomato cut into a fixed size is immersed in a solution composed of tomato juice diluted with water. The cut tomato in a state of immersed in the solution is thermally sterilized to give tomato sarcocarp for juice. Then the tomato sarcocarp for juice is added to previously thermally sterilized tomato juice to give the objective sarcocarp-containing tomato juice.COPYRIGHT: (C)1996,JPO