Ingredient: Tomato ketchup (organic version)
Category: Dressings & condiments
Season: All
Ketchup (or less commonly catsup), also known as Tomato Ketchup, Tomato Sauce, Red Sauce, Tommy Sauce, Tommy K, or Dead Horse, is a condiment, usually made from tomatoes.
The ingredients in a typical modern ketchup are tomato concentrate, spirit vinegar, corn syrup or other sugar, salt, spice and herb extracts (including celery), spice and garlic powder. Allspice, cloves, cinnamon, onion, and other vegetables may be included.
Ketchup is often used with chips (french fries), hamburgers, sandwiches and grilled or fried meat.
Ketchup with mayonnaise forms the base of Thousand Island dressing and fry sauce.
Ketchup is also typically used as a base for barbecue sauce
Ketchup has been shown to provide significant health benefits but many argue that these benefits are counterbalanced by the food's salt and sugar content.
Ketchup has been found to be a beneficial source of lycopene, an antioxidant which may help prevent some forms of cancer. This is particularly true of the organic brands of ketchup.
In fact, organic brands were found to contain three times as much lycopene as non-organic brands.
Ketchup, much like marinara sauce and other cooked tomato foods, yields higher levels of lycopene per serving because cooking makes lycopene in tomatoes more bio-available. |