If tomatoes are fruit
isn't ketchup (catsup) technically a smoothie?
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A smoothie (also known as a "smoothy") is a blended, chilled, sometimes sweetened beverage made from fresh fruit (fruit smoothie) or vegetables and in special cases can contain chocolate.
[...] a thick beverage of fruit pureed in a blender with ice and milk, yogurt, or juice.
- Ketchup is not considered a beverage by anybody I know.
- Ketchup is not made only from fresh fruit and ice/milk/yogurt/juice. It has many other ingredients.
- Ketchup is probably not made in a blender.
- There are plenty of food items made from fruit that aren't smoothies (is applesauce a "smoothie?").
So, no, it's not a smoothie simply because it contains a fruit.
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Tomatoes are fruits that are considered vegetables by nutritionists. Botanically, a fruit is a ripened flower ovary and contains seeds. Tomatoes, plums, zucchinis, and melons are all edible fruits, but things like maple “helicopters” and floating dandelion puffs are fruits too.Why Tomatoes Are Fruits, and Strawberries Aren't Berries
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During the Reagan years, it (ketchup) was allowed to be a vegetable option for school lunches, e.g. if you had french fries and ketchup, that counted as two vegetables.
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