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195 - Interesting Things: Ketchup was a Medicine | Interesting Things with JC | Podcasts on Audible | Audible.com
Notorious Narratives - In the 1830s, when it came to popular medicine, ketchup was all the rage. It was sold as a cure for indigestion by an Ohio physician named John Cook.
Alpha Catering - Fake remedies are not something new. Believe it or not, tomato ketchup was once sold as a medicine. Back in 1834, a US doctor claimed that tomato ketchup has
![Noom on Twitter: "A ketchup a day keeps the doctor away, or at least that's what Dr. John Cook Bennett proposed in the 1830s. While the use of ketchup has been replaced Noom on Twitter: "A ketchup a day keeps the doctor away, or at least that's what Dr. John Cook Bennett proposed in the 1830s. While the use of ketchup has been replaced](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FZW2qYwXoAEKZWA.png)
Noom on Twitter: "A ketchup a day keeps the doctor away, or at least that's what Dr. John Cook Bennett proposed in the 1830s. While the use of ketchup has been replaced
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![SERIOUSLY STRANGE on Twitter: "Around 1835, ketchup was sold as medicine, in the form of tomato pills. https://t.co/okILOFTloo" / Twitter SERIOUSLY STRANGE on Twitter: "Around 1835, ketchup was sold as medicine, in the form of tomato pills. https://t.co/okILOFTloo" / Twitter](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C9BfoBkU0AUg--e.jpg)
SERIOUSLY STRANGE on Twitter: "Around 1835, ketchup was sold as medicine, in the form of tomato pills. https://t.co/okILOFTloo" / Twitter
![Dr Lindsey Fitzharris on Twitter: "#DYK ketchup was once considered medicinal? In 1834, Dr John Cooke Bennet added tomatoes to ketchup - which traditionally was made from mushrooms (pictured here). Cooke claimed Dr Lindsey Fitzharris on Twitter: "#DYK ketchup was once considered medicinal? In 1834, Dr John Cooke Bennet added tomatoes to ketchup - which traditionally was made from mushrooms (pictured here). Cooke claimed](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E2JH6HzX0AMMy8y.jpg:large)