Lycopene, which is rich in tomatoes, is an excellent antioxidant, which is beneficial to protect skin, heart, stomach and prostate, and can also prevent stroke and cancer. Eating tomatoes or dishes cooked with ketchup often has many health benefits.
And the tomato product that is often used in cooking, which is called "ketchup" by many people, actually has a doorway. "Tomato paste" is subdivided into tomato paste, tomato paste and tomato sauce. What's the difference between them?
1. Tomato paste
The concentrated paste-like products of tomatoes are usually canned in iron.
Tomato paste is made from ripe red tomatoes by crushing, pulping, removing rough substances such as skins and seeds, concentrating, sterilizing and canning.
Tomato paste is raw and not directly eaten. It is generally used for cooking food, adding color and tomato flavor to food, as a substitute for raw tomatoes. Or to make Ketchup ketchup or tomatosauce tomato sauce.
Tomato paste has only tomato flavor, and no seasoning is added, so adding it during cooking will not affect the seasoning.
2. Ketchup
Ketchup is made from tomatoes with sugar and salt fried in salad oil. It is sweet and sour, and basically faithful to the original flavor of tomatoes.
ketchup is usually used with meals, such as French fries, salads, hamburgers, etc.
3. Tomato sauce?
The sauce in tomato sauce is a transliteration of English sauce. It is also a sauce made of tomato as the main raw material and various other seasonings. Tomato sauce has many flavors, the most common ones are garlic flavor, sweet pepper flavor, Chili flavor, seafood flavor ... Generally, tomato sauce is commonly used as seasoning in making pasta and other foods.
When cooking, you can add tomatopaste and tomato sauce, so that the color and taste can be better, but you should pay attention to the taste and avoid adding too much sugar and salt.