Is ketchup a vegetable ?

Answer 1

Anyone remember the 80's? Dear former President Reagan decreed from lofty heights that ketchup will count as one of the 5 servings of vegetables required by schoolchildren to make them strong and healthy and ready to study to defeat the Evil Empire as defined by his war lords to justify the Star Wars satellite defense system that required a larger budget, a budget easily expanded once the money from the Education Department, saved by eliminating real vegetables from the school lunch program, was put to so much better a use.

Answer 2

Ketchup Vegetable

Answer 3

Gorgon gave you the botonical word on tomatoes and others said it was also a fruit - which it is. But no one mentioned the reason why that fruit is called a vegetable (and by the way ketchup or catsup is a condiment as another said but it does contain the fruit (tomato).

Back in early days when there were taxes on all fruits and vegetables coming into different countries (including America), there was a greater tax on fruits than there was on vegetables so when tomatoes were first imported, the person importing them decided to call them vegetables to get the lower tax rate on them. And ever since they've been called vegetables even though technically they are a fruit.

Answer 4

Ketchup is a by-product of a tomato which is really a fruit people commonly mistake it for a vegetable because of its non sweet taste like most veggies.

Answer 5

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Is ketchup a vegetable ?

Answer 6

Reagan indeed stated that ketchup should be a vegetable after his budget director, David Stockman, proposed this relabeling as part of the administration's budget cuts for federally financed school lunch programs. It would have made it cheaper to satisfy the requirements on vegetable content of lunches. The suggestion was widely ridiculed and the proposal was killed.

Answer 7

It's a fruit sauce.

From a botanical perspective, tomatoes are fruits. Botanists use the terms fruit and vegetable to describe different parts of plants. Fruits are the mature ovaries (including seeds) of a plant.

Botanists commonly define vegetables in opposition to their definition of fruit. Vegetables are the other parts of the plant, including stems, stalks and roots. Under this definition, celery stalks and root vegetables such as carrots fall in the vegetable category.

Answer 8

It's like asking if chicken soup is an animal. Tomatoes are a fruit, not a vegetable, anyway. So, no.

Answer 9

Well, there is argument about if a tomato is a fruit or veggie. Either way, it starts out as a tomato and is processed into what we know as ketchup.

Answer 10

No ketchup isn't a veggie or fruit because of all the sugar found in it it is considered an oil.