Ketchup has been enjoyed by so many people for years and years. Now we knew how it all began and it may shock you!
Everything You Need To Know About Ketchup Is:
Ketchup's surprising origins, as told by Stanford University professor Dan Jurafsky in his book “The Language of Food,” go all the way back to 17th-century China. Ketchup started out as fish sauce, and it didn’t have tomatoes.
There is ketchup in 92 percent of U.S. households, according to the NPD Group.
Jurafsky says it was Vietnamese fishermen who introduced fermented fish sauce to Chinese traders traveling from their base in the southern Chinese province of Fujian.
They brought the savory sauce further into Southeast Asia, where the seafaring British took a fancy to it, fiddled around with it, and eventually turned Americans on to it.
Anchovies, mushrooms, walnuts, and oysters were common base ingredients for ketchup until the early 1800s, when tomatoes started showing up in recipes.
Ketchup turned sweeter in the mid-19th century with the addition of sugar to suit the American palate, according to Andrew F. Smith, author of Pure Ketchup: A History of America’s National Condiment, with Recipes.
In 1871, Heinz sold its first tomato ketchup.
Have You Ever Wondered Why It Tastes So Good?
Ketchup is tomato concentrate mixed with some combination of vinegar, sweeteners, and “spices, flavorings, onions, or garlic.”
Banana ketchup is a popular Filipino condiment,it's made with bananas, not tomatoes, plus vinegar, sugar, salt, and spices.
“Refrigerate after opening.” It says on the bottle. But you don’t have to if you use ketchup regularly.
An opened bottle will stay fresh in your pantry for one month.
Finished!
Now you know that ketchup went through many changes before it become the condiment we all enjoy today. Do you enjoy ketchup?
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Article Source: Fox News
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