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How to make ketchup
1, cut tomatoes into crosses, blanch them in boiling water and peel them;

2. Cut the tomatoes into pieces and cook them into paste (you can add salt and sugar according to your own taste);

3. Add appropriate amount of lemon juice;

4. Cool the cooked tomato sauce and put it in the bottle.

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Besides lycopene, tomato sauce also contains B vitamins, dietary fiber, minerals, protein and natural pectin. Compared with fresh tomatoes, the nutrients in tomato sauce are more easily absorbed by the human body.

Lycopene in tomato can inhibit the growth of bacteria, and it is an excellent antioxidant, which can scavenge free radicals in human body, and its anticancer effect is twice that of β-carotene.

Medical research has found that lycopene can prevent some types of cancer, inhibit breast cancer, lung cancer and endometrial cancer, and also fight lung cancer and colon cancer;

Tomato sauce tastes sweet and sour, which can stimulate appetite. Lycopene is more easily absorbed by the human body when it contains fat.

It is especially suitable for patients with arteriosclerosis, hypertension, coronary heart disease and nephritis. People with cold constitution, low blood pressure and cold hands and feet in winter are better than fresh tomatoes.

References:

Tomato paste-Baidu encyclopedia