5.It may surprise you/to know that Heinz was not the first bottle of ketchup sold that
hónor goes to a farmer(named Jonas Yerkes, who was selling bottles of ketchup
nationally by 1837.)It wasn't until roughly 40 years later that the F. & J/ Heinz company
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began selling tomato ketchup, ánd by the end of the 19th centuryy this was the primary
type of ketchup sold/in the United States. /Gradually, / the word tomato in “tomato
ketchup” was dropped from its name /since the tomato had become such a common
ingredient.
inllr/ 1unrine tomatoes were used, which required the addition of a preservative