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Ketchup was a good article, but it was removed from the list as it no longer met the good article criteria at the time. There are suggestions below for improving the article. If you can improve it, please do; it may then be renominated.
Review: January 12, 2006. (Reviewed version).

False statement

How the hell is pickling the tomatoes “not” a degradation of flavor? What person could not distinguish pickled vegetables from non-pickled ones? … It is very clear that the person that wrote this, has never cooked in her life, and exclusively eats hyper-processed fast “food”.
This kind of nonsense is exactly what could have been prevented, if the article was not locked down, in complete opposition to the whole point of Wikipedia.
As many have said before, I’ll say again: As long as Wikipedia is centralized, it’s a failed project (that hasn’t accepted its own failure yet).
— 2A0A:A546:4DFB:1:BD86:6B8C:9D84:4CE6 (talk) 11:12, 21 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Terminology

The Terminology section only mentions US and Canada. The terms used in other countries should be mentioned as well (i.e. Australia tends to use tomato sauce) --188.23.236.110 (talk) 18:57, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Etymology

Why would the name Ketchup come from Asia if the sauce's origin is from the United Kingdom or the United States? Alexysun (talk) 19:21, 8 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Etymology section presents the Asian word influences and complex, competing origins of the name that became ketchup, summarized here. The History section is about the UK and US dominance in manufacturing that led to the common ketchup varieties of today. Zefr (talk) 19:56, 8 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

All the etymology stories I've read about ketchup — other than this article — agree that it came from the Malay and/or Chinese word for a sauce that is pronounced similarly. (And that if it came from Malay, their word came from Chinese.)

How is it that this article posits the Malay/Chinese origin as just one unverified theory among many?

Has there been a major change in etymological research in the past few years? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:204:F181:9410:380A:4772:B1F2:1B7C (talk) 03:41, 1 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Inconsistency about calories

Energy in the summary table is incorrect and contradicts to the energy in the Nutrition chapter. 100 kcal per 100 grams is valid, 100 kcal per tablespoon (15 ml) is too much. SirArep (talk) 09:11, 17 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]