11 Facts About Ketchup That Will Have You Dousing Everything You Eat In It

However, the weren't able to fully duplicate it because they lacked soybeans, one of the native Chinese ingredients. 

The first known written recipe for ketchup that involved tomatoes was created by horticulturist James Mease of Philadelphia in 1812. He called tomatoes "love apples."

You actually should've tap on the bottom of the bottle, if you want to get more out of it. Firmly tapping on the 57's on the sides of the bottle to get more ketchup. 

Heinz ketchup flows out of the bottle at a rate of .028 miles an hour. Snails travel .03 miles an hour. 

The largest ketchup bottle in the world stands at 170 feet tall and can be seen in Collinsville, Illinois. The city also developed the world's largest ketchup packet in 2007. It held 127 gallons of ketchup, which were donated by Heinz. 

There is no difference between "ketchup" and "catsup." Henry J. Heinz just started using "ketchup" to set his brand apart. 

The Heinz company manufactured over 60 products, but Henry J. Heinz chose the number 57 to represent the company because 5 and 7 were he and his wife's favorite numbers.

In the 1860's some ketchup makers would use coal tar and excessive preservative to give it more color. 

The first recorded ketchup recipe that was found was from China in 544 A.D. It called for the intestines, stomach and bladder of a yellow fish, shark and mullet. It had to be incubated for 20 days under direct sunlight before it was ready for consumption. 

Dr. John Cook Bennett of Ohio told newspapers in 1834 that tomatoes were a cure-all for everything from dyspepsia to cholera.