Ketchup Research Paper

If I asked you to think about the condiment ketchup, your first thought is mostly like going to be about the ketchup made from tomato’s, rather than fish sauce. And yes I just said fish sauce. You see ketchup hasn’t always been made from tomato’s. Ketchup might just be a small side or condiment, for your main meal, but it does have such a large history behind how it got so popular. This paper will take you through the history, the process of creating the tasty condiment, uses and overall, life story of the condiment we know and love today. The word, ketchup comes from the Mandarin word,” koechiap”, which when translated means, ‘fish juice’. Yes, you read that right, ‘fish juice’. When I was first researching this topic and trying to find more information on, ketchup, I had to double check multiple times to make sure the article or academic journal I was reading was all about ketchup. I was shocked …show more content…
The early 1800’s was when homemade ketchup making was at its peak. The types of ketchup that were first made were with lemon, oysters, mushroom, and beer. Later in 1812, a Philadelphia scientist named James Mease created the first known ketchup recipe with tomatoes. Andrew Smith goes state in the, Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink, that tomato ketchups “… small quantities of it were first bottled in the 1850s. After the Civil War commercial production of ketchup rapidly increased and while other ketchups were manufactured, tomato ketchup became the most important version. In 1891 a writer in the Merchant's Review declared it to be the “sauce of sauces.” He also states in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America that not long after, in 1896, that tomato ketchup was America’s national condiment. Tomato ketchup was mainly used in the 1900’s, for savory foods like,” …pies and sauces, and to enhance the flavor of meat, poultry, and