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Ketchup, as we know it, is a sweet and sour tomato sauce.
This much-loved sauce, although it is often considered a US product par excellence, the origin of ketchup is oriental.
Ketchup is one of the most used sauces to accompany fries or stuff sandwiches, but did you know its ancient use in the medical field?
In the past, it was a medicine, even in pills. For a time, in the 19th century, ketchup was used as a medicine, as Dr John Cook Bennett saw it in 1835.
He thought that tomatoes could cure diseases such as diarrhoea, jaundice, and indigestion. Although weird and without scientific basis, the new “drug” was quite successful, until someone discovered the laxative effect of tomatoes.
The ketchup medicine empire collapsed in 1850.
By kork75!
