Interesting! This is real. I found 'ketchup' in the Southeast Asian dictionary. Soy sauce is called "kécap" in Indonesian and "kicap" in Malay. both from old Chinese, meaning fish sause😃
I feel the most important point is missing from the historical explanation and that is food preservation, which is roughly stated with the chinese background here. See the main food issue for most of human history wasn't flavor but longevity. Salt brinning and fermentation were the go-to methods. the garum (not sure about the spelling) was a long lasting sauce. That was the main reason for it's success. When occidentals started experimenting with ketchups made from other ingredients than fish, their primary concern was to create a different flavor without sacrificing the main attribute of the sauce: longevity, hence the choices of ingredients chosen (shellfish, mushrooms, onions and such). Tomato ketchup used to be one of the least appreciated version of the sauce, because it used to rot way faster than the others. Heinz corrected that issue by reducing the tomato sauce with the emerging sugar aboundance in America and replacing most water content with vinegar, finally fixing the problem of longevity. That is why to this day it says tomato ketchup, and not just ketchup.
Personally I’m not one for ketchup. For me it doesn’t cut the mustard. I don’t relish the opportunity to have when offered. There’s no way you can butter me up with it. I don’t make a big dill out of it.
Since sodium benzoate is still used today as a food preservative, I'm inclined to believe that the amounts of it used back in the day to preserve food products were way higher than the amounts used today.
"Officially, sodium benzoate is regarded as not harmful-only when consumed in large amounts can it cause allergic reactions or contribute to the exacerbation of disease symptoms in aspirin-induced asthma (with hypersensitivity to aspirin and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) [14,15,16]. Apr 2, 2022" www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9003278/#:~:text=Officially%2C%20sodium%20benzoate%20is%20regarded,14%2C15%2C16%5D.
Officially, sodium benzoate is regarded as not harmful-only when consumed in large amounts can it cause allergic reactions or contribute to the exacerbation of disease symptoms in aspirin-induced asthma (with hypersensitivity to aspirin and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) [14,15,16].Apr 2, 2022 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9003278/#:~:text=Officially%2C%20sodium%20benzoate%20is%20regarded,14%2C15%2C16%5D. but, when mixed with vitamin C, Sodium Benzoate can turn into Benzene, a known cancer causing chemical " If sodium benzoate is known to harm people's health, why is it legal for use in food? Questionable additives, including sodium benzoate, continue to be allowed in the food we eat because of the Food and Drug Administration’s outdated generally recognized as safe, or GRAS, rule loophole. The purpose of the rule was to allow ingredients to skip regulatory approval only if they’re known to be safe. But it’s allowed manufacturers, not the FDA, to certify their own ingredients as safe. Since 2000, nearly 99 percent of new food chemicals added to the food supply chain have exploited the GRAS loophole. And government agencies regulate chemicals one at a time. Potential harm caused by exposure to food chemicals does not come from exposure to just one ingredient. Instead, many health harms can be caused by a combination of ingredients, like sodium benzoate and ascorbic acid, sodium benzoate and citric acid, and sodium benzoate and vitamin C. These toxic combinations must be taken into account for regulation to be effective." www.ewg.org/news-insights/news/2024/02/what-sodium-benzoate
Why would they use large amount of it if a pinch was enough? Sodium benzoate did not important for the taste of the condiment, therefore they wouldn't use it more than what was needed. Business people always look for ways to cut their costs, after all.
Love how Tedx are keeping up with the times through this animation style, but the other less modern styles were more engaging for me. Tangent aside, I'd also like to share how during WW2, the Philippines had produced ketchup out of bananas. Its inventor was Maria Orosa, who was from the University of the Philippines. She sought to maximize local alternatives to imported produce.
I am amazed that the word 'ketchup' originated from SEA. Although, the word 'kecap' is used for an entirely different sauce (soy sauce) today in Indonesia.
We still have the fermented fish sauce. It is very popular in Kelantan, Malaysia. It is called as 'budu'. 'Budu' is very salty. Thus, it should be eaten in a small amount. 'Budu' is used as a dipping sauce for ulam (fresh vegetables) and fish; eaten with rice. I would eat budu with durian, fresh veggies, fried fish and rice in one meal. It is so good! The salty budu taste complements the sweet durian flesh. Most Kelantanese ppl could not live without the sauce.
Because Brits knew ketchup as fermented soy instead of crushed tomato, while American only knew ketchup as crushed tomato instead of the original fermented soy. 🤔
In Indonesia, we called soy sauce -> kecap (ketchup). and for ketchup, we called it saus tomat (tomato sauce). also, worcestershire sauce is kecap inggris (english ketchup) in Indonesian.
In the Cantonese language, the word for tomato is fan ke, and the word for juice/sauce is chup. So tomato juice is fan ke chup or ke chup. I don’t think it’s a coincidence. I speak of the name origin, not the sauce or recipe origin.
Are you able to please share the relevant characters? I tried it on Google Translate and got the tomato part (番茄), but I can't find the character for sauce that gives ~"chup". Thank you!
Did you even watch the video? The name origin came well before people in the Canton region had access to tomatoes. It's literally the definition of a coincidence that the English word ketchup sounds similar in Cantonese.
I still remember the first time I ate okonomi sauce. "It tastes like ketchup with coke" I said, and now I can see how it was most likely yet another derivation of ketchup. Very cool!
It was spelled ketchup as early as 1711, long before heinz. Heinz changed the spelling of their product from "catsup" to "ketchup" But he did not invent either spelling. Also catchup may have been a spelling before catsup.
This is not correct. Although the fish sauces that would later become ketchup were introduced to westerners by Chinese traders, the traders got it from Tonkin which is in modern day Northern Vietnam. To this day, fish sauce is not commonly used in Chinese cuisine other than in some regions in Southern China but it is an integral ingredient in many Southeast Asian cuisines.
While the global evolution of ketchup took place by the time of World War II, a distinct variety of ketchup is found in the Philippines. Facing a scarcity of tomatoes due to the war, Filipinos ingeniously turned to a local staple: bananas. In 1942, Filipina industrial chemist Maria Orosa launched the first banana ketchup recipe as a substitute to the usual tomato-based ketchup. The recipe based on the mashed bananas, vinegar, sugar and spices yielded a sweet and tart salsa that was very much close in taste to the tomato-based version. Banana ketchup was now a household name, loved by many as part of the diverse Filipino cuisine. I just wanted to add this information cause i was really hoping for it to be mentioned when i was watching this video:
Hi!! I’m from Brazil and I love to watch your videos, especially the ones “Why should you read”. There’s many of it, and would be great if you make for some book of Machado de Assis, like “Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas”, it’s a classic of literature, and very important for our country. Sorry for my english, i’m learning yet. Thank you
The original word actually comes from Hokkien. "Keh" refers to the certain type of fish while "Tsiap" means sauce. The funny thing is that majority of hokkien speakers assumed that "Keh tsiap" actually direct translation of Tomato sauce to the language because coincidentally "Keh" when pronounced in a different intonation means tomato
Tomatoes and fish have the same chemical compound - MIND BLOWN! I mean, why? How? What a crazy planet we live on! Also, I swear there have been times when I've eaten a tomato and have wondered, "Does this taste fishy?!" but since I couldn't figure out where the taste was coming from, I dismissed it. Cool video!
In The Netherlands we still use Ketjap for Asian food and we use Ketchup for fries. I never thought their name would have the same origin as the sauces are so different.
This is a story I've wanted to know for decades! Thank you! My mother's side of the family has the notariety of being the Pittsburgh family that wouldn't loan Heinz $100 to become partners in the original pickle business!
In the Philippines, we have banana ketchup that was invented due to lack of tomato supplies during world war 2. Try it, it's delicious and can be used in many dishes too.
In the United States of America -- ketchup is now primarily made of water, high fructose corn syrup, red dye coloring,, & artificial sugars. Just read the label yourself, & you would see this.
Shockingly, Henry Heinz also had a major role in food safety in the United States. Because he was committed to selling a quality product, he actually was one of the few in the food industry who back the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, the first food safety regulations in the country. He knew that if this law passed, it would drive his competition, who made the cheaper, less safe versions of ketchup, out of business, so from Heinz’s perspective, supporting this law was a no brainer
That was 100x more interesting than I thought it would be. History is so cool.
At least if its not about war.
That’s Ted ed
Interesting! This is real. I found 'ketchup' in the Southeast Asian dictionary. Soy sauce is called "kécap" in Indonesian and "kicap" in Malay. both from old Chinese, meaning fish sause😃
Kinda funny cause ketchup sounds like Cantonese is 'fan ke jup,' which is literally just tomato juice.
souse
Sauce.*
except kecap or kicap nowadays are nothing related to tomatoes 😂 they are either sweet or savory fermented soy sauce
@@Elakbar246 True. I've heard sweet and sour pork get called 'ke jup jyu (pork),' but it doesn't contain tomatoes at all. Languages are weird.
I feel the most important point is missing from the historical explanation and that is food preservation, which is roughly stated with the chinese background here. See the main food issue for most of human history wasn't flavor but longevity. Salt brinning and fermentation were the go-to methods. the garum (not sure about the spelling) was a long lasting sauce. That was the main reason for it's success. When occidentals started experimenting with ketchups made from other ingredients than fish, their primary concern was to create a different flavor without sacrificing the main attribute of the sauce: longevity, hence the choices of ingredients chosen (shellfish, mushrooms, onions and such). Tomato ketchup used to be one of the least appreciated version of the sauce, because it used to rot way faster than the others. Heinz corrected that issue by reducing the tomato sauce with the emerging sugar aboundance in America and replacing most water content with vinegar, finally fixing the problem of longevity.
That is why to this day it says tomato ketchup, and not just ketchup.
WTF are you talking about? The first thing the video talks about is preserving fish.
If you cared to read you'd answer your own question.@@toolbaggers
@@toolbaggers earlier that was fish
I love to see Tedx animations evolve... But the older ones are comfort.
They don't have a specific style, they work with different animation studios and use their characteristic style to animate the videos.
I liked the humor in this one.
its not rly evolution tho, they just have different animators cycling
3:39 that tomato just twerking right there
That will be the most impactful 5 minutes of my day.
people are dying of malnutrition in ga za
@@mimosveta um.How does that have anything to do with what he said?
@@mimosveta that goes good with ketchup too
I once saw a guy at school eating banana with ketchup, it deeply traumatized me and still haunt my dreams to this day
There's a banana ketchup. Do with that information what you must.
@@sirchtnecnivsanti7273 Is there really one?
yep, Filipina Maria Orosa made banana ketchup. Used banana instead of tomato because it was war time and tomatoes weren't available
We love banana ketchup.
@@EllaQuinghuh, neat. thanks for the fact!
Salt bae had me suddenly laughing 😂
1:00
Salt *Bao
Old man got rizz
"oh my god please no" --chinese ancestors rn
You could called him Sal-Di
First hypnotized by the animation. Then watched again to listened to the story. Kudos! animation and sound team🔥just love it
“ Ketchup with us on .... ” 😂🤣
Ketchup and mayonnaise are my favorite condiments and they go so well together ❤
Asian salt bae, tomato twerking and then the bottle and the hot dog, TedEd must have had a field day with this
lol
From old china to brazilian pizza. What a rich history
😂
3:33 DAT Tomato 🍅 twerking
😂😂😂
I am forever haunted by that
GYAAAAA-
Savor it!
seems something that Danny Casale would do
I gave literal standing ovation/LOL at 59sec! OMG, this whole vid's animation is SLAYING it!!
Personally I’m not one for ketchup. For me it doesn’t cut the mustard. I don’t relish the opportunity to have when offered. There’s no way you can butter me up with it. I don’t make a big dill out of it.
Very punny comment there , shame some thirst trap channel stole it from you . Good to see that Ted Ed approves of your joke though .
Mayo please stop (joke)
I love English mustard
Ketchup is great for chicken burgers only
😂😂😂
Since sodium benzoate is still used today as a food preservative, I'm inclined to believe that the amounts of it used back in the day to preserve food products were way higher than the amounts used today.
Why don't you look it up instead of blind faith?
"Officially, sodium benzoate is regarded as not harmful-only when consumed in large amounts can it cause allergic reactions or contribute to the exacerbation of disease symptoms in aspirin-induced asthma (with hypersensitivity to aspirin and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) [14,15,16]. Apr 2, 2022"
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9003278/#:~:text=Officially%2C%20sodium%20benzoate%20is%20regarded,14%2C15%2C16%5D.
Officially, sodium benzoate is regarded as not harmful-only when consumed in large amounts can it cause allergic reactions or contribute to the exacerbation of disease symptoms in aspirin-induced asthma (with hypersensitivity to aspirin and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) [14,15,16].Apr 2, 2022
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9003278/#:~:text=Officially%2C%20sodium%20benzoate%20is%20regarded,14%2C15%2C16%5D.
but, when mixed with vitamin C, Sodium Benzoate can turn into Benzene, a known cancer causing chemical
" If sodium benzoate is known to harm people's health, why is it legal for use in food?
Questionable additives, including sodium benzoate, continue to be allowed in the food we eat because of the Food and Drug Administration’s outdated generally recognized as safe, or GRAS, rule loophole.
The purpose of the rule was to allow ingredients to skip regulatory approval only if they’re known to be safe. But it’s allowed manufacturers, not the FDA, to certify their own ingredients as safe.
Since 2000, nearly 99 percent of new food chemicals added to the food supply chain have exploited the GRAS loophole.
And government agencies regulate chemicals one at a time. Potential harm caused by exposure to food chemicals does not come from exposure to just one ingredient. Instead, many health harms can be caused by a combination of ingredients, like sodium benzoate and ascorbic acid, sodium benzoate and citric acid, and sodium benzoate and vitamin C.
These toxic combinations must be taken into account for regulation to be effective."
www.ewg.org/news-insights/news/2024/02/what-sodium-benzoate
Why would they use large amount of it if a pinch was enough? Sodium benzoate did not important for the taste of the condiment, therefore they wouldn't use it more than what was needed. Business people always look for ways to cut their costs, after all.
@@toolbaggers The phrase "inclined to believe" doesn't mark blind faith. Rather, it's more of a casual hypothesis.
*The sassy twerking of tomato is phenomenal!* 3:36
The smirking hot dog getting slathered is a bit disturbing....
A bit, yup.@@kraneiathedancingdryad6333
A bit, yes.
saucy
Love how Tedx are keeping up with the times through this animation style, but the other less modern styles were more engaging for me.
Tangent aside, I'd also like to share how during WW2, the Philippines had produced ketchup out of bananas. Its inventor was Maria Orosa, who was from the University of the Philippines. She sought to maximize local alternatives to imported produce.
I am amazed that the word 'ketchup' originated from SEA. Although, the word 'kecap' is used for an entirely different sauce (soy sauce) today in Indonesia.
That's why as an indonesian i'm very confused when knowing ketchup using tomato years ago. Now I know the reason hahaha
Both the English word and the Indonesian word have the same origin, either Cantonese or Hokkien
Henry "Hotline Bling" Heinz (4:10) 👌
4:29 WTH I am seeing!🤣
Something traumatizing
LOL
“It’s not gonna sauce itself”
Ayooo that hotdog be getting some
i thought i was the only one
1:00 **Salt Bae** reference PRICELESS 😂😂😂
When ketchup has an argument with mustard, it gets very saucy. 😜
We still have the fermented fish sauce. It is very popular in Kelantan, Malaysia. It is called as 'budu'.
'Budu' is very salty. Thus, it should be eaten in a small amount. 'Budu' is used as a dipping sauce for ulam (fresh vegetables) and fish; eaten with rice.
I would eat budu with durian, fresh veggies, fried fish and rice in one meal. It is so good! The salty budu taste complements the sweet durian flesh.
Most Kelantanese ppl could not live without the sauce.
That hotdog and ketchup 4:31 is SUS
4:29
“We like to have fun here.”
-The Ted-Ed animators
It came back in full circle after María Orosa invented the banana ketchup.
This is why I love TED-Ed.
That hotdog animation around 4:35 was crazy 😭
3:33 jesus mary and joseph is that tomato twerking?
The animation style is so fun
i was not ready for asian salt bae.
Me at 1AM: Time to go to sleep, I have to wake up early
RUclips: so here’s the history of ketchup
I barely knew anything about the history so far, therefore I am glad that I could finally ketch up
This makes sense now! My British friends always say, "tomato ketchup" I could not understand why.. thank you!!
Because Brits knew ketchup as fermented soy instead of crushed tomato, while American only knew ketchup as crushed tomato instead of the original fermented soy. 🤔
Exactly!
1:00 HEY IT'S THE MEME!
SALT BAEEEE
I always think of Simpson episode, mr. Burns grocery shopping for himself, in the aisle trying to figure out, catsup/ketchup. Lol
This has been coming back to my mind for years and years when I see ketchup 😅😅 glad to know I'm not alone
Love the animation, subtle allegory, 🌶️
In Indonesia, we called soy sauce -> kecap (ketchup). and for ketchup, we called it saus tomat (tomato sauce).
also, worcestershire sauce is kecap inggris (english ketchup) in Indonesian.
omg im somali and we say ingris for english too i wonder why
Never thought I would see a tomato twerking. 😂😂
I love this Ted-Ed videos❤❤❤
Awesome as always thanks ❤
that "catch up (ketchup) with us" at 5:05 is so subtle
Interesting as always 😊
Agreed
In the Cantonese language, the word for tomato is fan ke, and the word for juice/sauce is chup. So tomato juice is fan ke chup or ke chup. I don’t think it’s a coincidence. I speak of the name origin, not the sauce or recipe origin.
Are you able to please share the relevant characters? I tried it on Google Translate and got the tomato part (番茄), but I can't find the character for sauce that gives ~"chup". Thank you!
@@johndeorian6654
@@johndeorian6654 its likely tjap or cap.
@@johndeorian6654 茄汁
Did you even watch the video? The name origin came well before people in the Canton region had access to tomatoes. It's literally the definition of a coincidence that the English word ketchup sounds similar in Cantonese.
Me just casually eating ketchup and fries while watching this 🍟🍅
3:31 a twerking tomato? This video is wild
I needed this video sooner
I still remember the first time I ate okonomi sauce. "It tastes like ketchup with coke" I said, and now I can see how it was most likely yet another derivation of ketchup. Very cool!
the tomato twerking tho 💀
ted ed is world’s most animation program!
The music in this was so good!!
probably the most explicit ted ed video ever - I see what you did there
Your animations are the best! ❤
I certainly wasn't expecting a twirking tomato in a Ted-Ed video. Yet, here we are.
Props for animators.🎉
Best explanation ive seen for this
the whole vid was an amalgamation of various memes lol
So original ketchup was….basically fish gut wine? Wild! The things TedEd teaches us all never cease to amaze.
Not fish gut, whole fish as stated in the beginning of the video.
the animation with little faces in the machinery is awesome!!!!
Fun fact: Ketchup was orginally called "Catsup", Ketchup was a name invented by heinz, a fact forgotten by this otherwise great video.
U mean the English spelling? The word originated from Chinese, so no he didn't "invent" it
It was spelled ketchup as early as 1711, long before heinz.
Heinz changed the spelling of their product from "catsup" to "ketchup"
But he did not invent either spelling.
Also catchup may have been a spelling before catsup.
I think you just mean the spelling. The pronunciation of "ke chup" originated from Cantonese. Heinz just used his own spelling for it.
This is not correct. Although the fish sauces that would later become ketchup were introduced to westerners by Chinese traders, the traders got it from Tonkin which is in modern day Northern Vietnam. To this day, fish sauce is not commonly used in Chinese cuisine other than in some regions in Southern China but it is an integral ingredient in many Southeast Asian cuisines.
While the global evolution of ketchup took place by the time of World War II, a distinct variety of ketchup is found in the Philippines. Facing a scarcity of tomatoes due to the war, Filipinos ingeniously turned to a local staple: bananas. In 1942, Filipina industrial chemist Maria Orosa launched the first banana ketchup recipe as a substitute to the usual tomato-based ketchup. The recipe based on the mashed bananas, vinegar, sugar and spices yielded a sweet and tart salsa that was very much close in taste to the tomato-based version. Banana ketchup was now a household name, loved by many as part of the diverse Filipino cuisine.
I just wanted to add this information cause i was really hoping for it to be mentioned when i was watching this video:
Same
Hi!! I’m from Brazil and I love to watch your videos, especially the ones “Why should you read”. There’s many of it, and would be great if you make for some book of Machado de Assis, like “Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas”, it’s a classic of literature, and very important for our country. Sorry for my english, i’m learning yet. Thank you
The original word actually comes from Hokkien. "Keh" refers to the certain type of fish while "Tsiap" means sauce. The funny thing is that majority of hokkien speakers assumed that "Keh tsiap" actually direct translation of Tomato sauce to the language because coincidentally "Keh" when pronounced in a different intonation means tomato
0:36 "how did it become the dip we know and lo..."
I'm gonna stop you right there mate.
thanks for such inspiring video, always love your how beautiful and colorful your animation was
😍😍😍
Tomatoes and fish have the same chemical compound - MIND BLOWN! I mean, why? How? What a crazy planet we live on! Also, I swear there have been times when I've eaten a tomato and have wondered, "Does this taste fishy?!" but since I couldn't figure out where the taste was coming from, I dismissed it. Cool video!
I'd love to see a return to some of the older ingredients from history. Shallots in the sauce would be so dang good I think!
In The Netherlands we still use Ketjap for Asian food and we use Ketchup for fries.
I never thought their name would have the same origin as the sauces are so different.
honestly the Anthony Bourdain quote is a trueee statement. I can't most things without sauce
Nice video!
Agreed
Never expected to see a tomato throwing it back 💀
4:28 I think the animator knew what hes doing
I get the savory sauces now thanks to learning about them, now I'm an anchovy person.
This is a story I've wanted to know for decades! Thank you! My mother's side of the family has the notariety of being the Pittsburgh family that wouldn't loan Heinz $100 to become partners in the original pickle business!
Why didn't you look it up? They had encyclopedias back then.
3:31 WHY TF IS THE TOMATO TWERKING 😭😭😭
Great video 👍
Best information.
1:23 - I sincerely think the Roman knows something the greek girl... and given the subject is about fish sauce...
The details in this video were so saucy
I'm watching while eating ketchup 😋
Ahahahah
2:36 what dose crop mean here?
Always awesome contents!
1:00 had me wheezing 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
New goal: Going to take the Japanese Omurice and add fish sauce. Technically it's still ketchup. ❤
Watching this video while eating seafood cuisine with ketchup on it never felt so good.
Respect TED ED 👍🏻😃
Yea i also respect Ted Ed too
In the Philippines, we have banana ketchup that was invented due to lack of tomato supplies during world war 2. Try it, it's delicious and can be used in many dishes too.
OK. Send a bottle to us. 🤪
Ketchup is whatever you want ketchup to be. Where I come from we make ketchup from bananas.
As a Chinese, I was shocked to see an Italian sipped fish sauce like sipping wine
In the United States of America -- ketchup is now primarily made of water, high fructose corn syrup, red dye coloring,, & artificial sugars. Just read the label yourself, & you would see this.
An abomination
Shockingly, Henry Heinz also had a major role in food safety in the United States.
Because he was committed to selling a quality product, he actually was one of the few in the food industry who back the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, the first food safety regulations in the country. He knew that if this law passed, it would drive his competition, who made the cheaper, less safe versions of ketchup, out of business, so from Heinz’s perspective, supporting this law was a no brainer
Very good tale! MISSING only is the expansion (or revision) in SE Asia to the very popular "Banana Ketchup", while fish sauces remain popular.
The tomato twerking was everything.
Great video👍, I just know that a bottle of ketchup has very long history and modification. Nice information😎😎
“Catch-up with us” 😂😂
Traditional fish sauce is still widely used even in the US. Red Boat brand from Vietnam is the best.
After this vid, I don’t want to hear any westerners complain about filipino banana ketchup anymore. Turns out you just adopted bagoong isda