And it's harmful to your health and makes you fat.
The preservatives in it (that is, the antioxidants they say) are particularly harmful to people.
If you want to eat too much, make it yourself. I have downloaded a good recipe for you (with or without sugar):
Tomato paste is a concentrated sauce product of fresh tomatoes. It is a bright red sauce with the unique flavor of tomato, and it is a very distinctive condiment, which is generally not eaten directly. Tomato paste is made from ripe red tomatoes by crushing, pulping, removing rough substances such as peel and seeds, concentrating, canning and sterilizing. Tomato paste is often used as a cooking seasoning for fish, meat and other foods, and it is a good seasoning for increasing color, acidity, freshness and fragrance. The application of tomato sauce is an important seasoning content to form the flavor characteristics of Cantonese cuisine in Hong Kong.
The first step is to prepare the tableware.
Containers for tomato sauce, wide-mouth bottles (all kinds of large-mouth wine bottles and beverage bottles can be used), and equipped with bottle stoppers. Wash the bottle inside and out (you can also put fine sand in the bottle with water and stir it back and forth), and then put it in the pot with water. When you put it in the bottle, boil it in water for 10 minutes, then take it out with water and put it on the pot table for later use.
Step 2: Make tomato sauce.
Pure ketchup
Wash tomatoes (proper amount), steam them in a cage for a few minutes, then take them out, remove rough skins, stems and rotten parts, crush them by hand and cook them in a pot. After a few minutes, when the tomatoes are cooled, stir them with a spoon and bottle them.
Shannon ketchup
Ingredients: tomato 2000g, sugar 400g, white vinegar 150ml, salt 50g, spiced powder 15g, appropriate amount of minced onion and garlic, and a little pepper.
Exercise:
1. Choose ripe tomatoes without rot, pests and diseases, clean them, steam them in a steamer, take them out, peel them, crush them, and then filter the seeds with clean gauze to leave pulp.
2. Add spiced powder into white vinegar, soak for 2 hours, then add white sugar and salt to dissolve it completely, mix it evenly, and then pour it into tomato pulp.
3. Mix a little onion, minced garlic, pepper and tomato sauce evenly, and put it in a pot and cook it over low heat. Stir while cooking until it is thick and paste, put it in a clean and dry glass bottle while it is hot, and cover and seal it. Store in a low-temperature and dry place.
Western ketchup
Ingredients: 2000 grams of fresh tomatoes, appropriate amount of olive oil, appropriate amount of minced garlic and onion, a little bay leaves, rum, water, sugar, salt and pepper.
Practice: 1. Wash fresh tomatoes, cook them in a casserole, peel and remove seeds after cooking, and break them in a blender.
2. Heat the olive oil in the pot, add the minced garlic and onion and stir-fry until the onion is soft, then add the chopped tomato pulp.
3. After stir-frying, add bay leaves, rum, water, sugar, salt and pepper to taste.
4. Cook over medium heat until the soup thickens, and take out laurel leaves to make tomato sauce.
Step 3: Bottle ketchup.
When bottling, first pour out the water in the bottle, put the tomatoes into the bottle with a funnel while it is hot, leave a gap in the bottle mouth, drop a little wine on it, and then plug the plastic lid tightly.
The tomato sauce made by the above method can generally keep the same taste for more than one year, just like fresh tomatoes, but it can't be preserved after opening the bottle.
Step 4: Store ketchup.
After the canned tomato sauce is opened, if it can't be eaten all at once, it will go bad easily after a while. If you open a can of tomato sauce, steam it in the pot before eating, and the remaining tomato sauce will not go bad after a long time. Another good way to prevent tomato sauce from going bad is to put a layer of plastic wrap around the opening of the canned tomato sauce and seal it, and put it in the refrigerator for long-term storage. Scrape off the top layer before eating.