Just how much ketchup is too much ketchup?
A friend and I drove through a Jollibee one time on the way home after work since we hadn't been able to eat anything while on our shift. If you know me at all you know that I'm ketchup crazy. I usually ask for about 6 extra sachets in addition to whatever they dump in the bag whenever I order a large fries. Anyway, said friend noticed that I've a habit of sipping a sachet, sometimes the whole thing or at least half of it at a time, then throwing several fries in my mouth after it. At which my nurse friend comments "Di ka naawa sa atay mo? (Don't you feel pity for your liver?)".
So, while eating my fried meatballs with the usual gratuitous amount of ketchup, I started to wonder if, in fact, I was torturing my liver with too much Lycopene.
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After a little sleuthing (what you didn't experience while reading this entry is the hour plus I spent looking for "Too Much Ketchup" info and winding up watching CSI on some channel - FOX crime or something I think) it appears that its' the high concentration of sugar in the corn syrup and other sugars that ketchup consists of that could and would be bad for my health.
And while I was planning this entry to be open-ended, well, here it is.
Does this knowledge make me want to cut back on the sauce? Well, seeing as I don't exactly eat ketchup every meal of every day, I think that the binging every so often won't be so bad. :)