What is ketchup made of?
Ketchup takes tomatoes, water, table salt, sugar and vinegar directly. Trace them back and you pass 11 made things on the way to 12 raw materials.
How ketchup is made See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 12 raw materials
- Tomatoes goes straight in
- Water goes straight in
- Rock salt through table salt
- Seawater through table salt
- Sugarcane through sugar
- Sugar beet through sugar
- Wine grapes through vinegar
- Limestone through sugar, quicklime
- Corn through vinegar, ethanol
- Barley through vinegar, malted barley
- Natural gas through vinegar, ethanol, ethylene
- Crude oil through vinegar, ethanol, ethylene, naphtha
Made along the way: 8 things
Chemicals and fuels 5
Food 3
What it is packed in
On the line, but left out of everything above, because it holds the finished thing rather than goes into it.