• Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip
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    9 months ago

    for those who dont know why banana ketchup is used, the Philippines for a time period didnt have ready access to tomatoes, so to get a sweet red sauce, they substituted tomatoes with bananas. thus related, since they didn’t have tomatoes, you couldnt make a tomato based sauce, so here comes in banana ketchup.

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      9 months ago

      I can understand the bananas to make it sweet, but would banana ketchup still be red somehow? Or would it just be kind of a pale yellow ketchup equivalent?

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        9 months ago

        no, it would look like what you think itd look like. red food coloring is added so that it looks closer to ketchup

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          9 months ago

          (which is also true of tomato ketchup)