Ketchup is a vegetable.
"Ketchup is a vegetable."
Only according to idiot government functionaries.
Ketchup is a derivative of tomatoes, which are vegetable. I know some assholes declare tomatoes a fruit. But they would never say that bell peppers, wax beans, cucumbers and pumpkins are fruit, in spite of the FACT that all of the above are what a blossom/flower turn into once they reached the time in their lives to be what nature intended them to be.
You are botanically correct. Tomatoes are a fruit, not a vegetable. However, ketchup is not a fruit.
So, tell this ignorant world WHY tomatoes are fruit and not vegetable. And WHY something that comes from a fruit - according to you and your fellow insane fruits - is not a fruit.
A fruit is the seed bearing structure in a flowering plant formed by the ovary after flowering. A tomato is a fruit. It starts as a flower and then the ovary enlarges and ripens. It contains seeds.
Something with fruit as one of the ingredients is not fruit. It is a food containing fruit. Ketchup contains many ingredients, one of which is tomatoes. It is not a fruit. It simply contains some fruit.