What’s red, full of sugar & goes on everything?

Susan Sampson from the Toronto Star reported today that Canadians consume the second largest amount of ketchup in the world, based on information from Heinz. This averages out to 2.5 litres a year per person. (The Finns were apparently the number one ketchup consumers- what happened to the US?!)

Sampson’s article also mentioned that all the tomatoes used in Heinz ketchup are from Ontario, which is nice to know. (Not so fast locavores, that sugar came from Costa Rica!) Maybe that's why I didn't like the taste of ketchup in Australia. I think it was a different colour too.

In case you haven’t heard, Ketchup contains 1/3 pure refined evil sugar so go easy on it. However, it does contain magical lycopene, which your body can only absorb from cooked tomatoes (like in ketchup) and that can help protect you against heart disease.