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Sheldon > wrote:

> >
> > I use Catsup in things like Deviled egg recipes and tuna salads.
>
> I can't imagine you put enough ketchup in deviled eggs to notice if it
> were omitted... I would be very suspicious of peach hued egg yolk
> anyway... and ketchup in tuna salad... BLECH!

Catsup was the original fish sauce.
Think Shrimp cocktail. It contains tomato.

Catsup goes VERY well with fish if you are in the mood for it.
I don't always use it in Tuna salad tho'. I will however often use fresh
minced tomato.

>
> > I happen to really like tomatoes.
> > And they are high in anti-oxidants.
>
> Well then, just eat fresh tomatoes (duh), they gotta contain more of
> whatever is good and nothing bad.

Look it up. Tomato paste is MUCH higher in Lycopenes than fresh tomato.

> I seriously doubt there is much
> tomato benefit from eating ketchup, just a lotta Heinz hype...

Commercial, perhaps.
Home made?

Think about it.


> ketchup
> is a condiment, not an entree, not even an appetizer... you need to
> rearrange your priorities, seriously. I don't think there is much of
> the nutrition people eat tomatoes for in cooked tomatoes.... the fiber
> is negated, the Vitamin C is destroyed, and any antioxidants are
> seriously degraded... all you got is caramelized sugar and some
> salt... cooked to death tomato is essentially junk food.

Not true.
Google for Lycopene content.
It's good for the eyes and that is what I am after.

>
> Right now I have a glut of tomatoes, can't eat them fast enough...

Gods.

I'd pay the postage if I thought they'd arrive fresh. :-(
I did not grow this year.

I just paid $2.69 per lb. for some local grown at the health food store
for 4 of them as I was craving REAL tomatoes so!

> breakfast this morning was a two quart bowl filled with diced fresh
> tomatoes, fresh picked parsley, a half a minced onion, juice of one
> lime, and lots of fresh ground black pepper... no added salt, no fat,
> no chemicals... I was too lazy to go to the garden for a cucumber.
> Probably for dinner, with a can of sardines in tomato sauce (man can't
> live by fiber alone, gots to have some quality protein).
>
> Sheldon

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