[DogByte6RER]

Let's reiterate #4 (ketchup) again...

4. Ketchup: For some families, ketchup accounts for a large part of the household vegetable intake. About 75 percent of tomato consumption is in the form of processed tomatoes, including juice, tomato paste and ketchup. Notably, recent research has shown organic ketchup has about double the antioxidants of conventional ketchup.

Well if the NYT is now publishing that ketchup is a vegetable, it seems as though Reagan was right (again.)

[ari-freedom]

Why?

[Beagle8U]

Tomatoes are a fruit, not a vegetable.

[Paperdoll]

Love Ketchup - but NEVER BUY HEINZ!!!!!

[Paperdoll]

Love Ketchup - but NEVER BUY HEINZ!!!!!

[DogByte6RER]

http://www.drgreene.org/body.cfm?id=21&action=detail&ref=2154

[wbill]

My kids drink organic milk. I figure that it's pasteurized, so it can't be hurting them. I rarely drink milk, I can't tell the diff between regular and organic.

I'm a little leery of organic vegetables....what's used for fertilizer? Is there even a bit of difference?

I buy a lot locally at farmer's markets, and have a small garden for herbs, cukes, and tomatoes - I don't use pesticides in it (gee, how Gaia-conscious is that?!) so I suppose that my family is "fairly organic"....but it's not like I use it to make a statement, or anything. AlGore would be disappointed.

And actually, all of the parsely in my herb garden this year got mowed over by fat green caterpillars...they turn into those beautiful blue swallowtails, and wbill jr loves to watch the "tat-rpillars" munching. I can get parsely in the store this fall...it was worth it to watch my son learning.

[mjp]

organic ketchup has about double the antioxidants of conventional ketchup

Examples of products containing lycopene include: High concentrations: Tomatoes and tomato products (sauce, soup, paste, juice and ketchup)