The pictures below show how tomato ketchup is made.

These pictures illustrate the main stages of how to make tomato
ketchup
and
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usages
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usage
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. There are 15 stages in the diagram, from picking
tomatoes
to enjoying
ketchup
with your
favorite
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meal.
To begin
with,
tomatoes
are picked by
farmer
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the farmer
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and put into
basket
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the basket
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.
Then
tomatoes
are sorted
to
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into
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good and bad, which
send
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sends
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good
tomatoes
to
factory
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the factory
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. In the factory,
tomatoes’
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the tomatoes’
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stalk, seeds and skin are removed, and once
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the tomato’s
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tomato’s
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tomatoes’
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parts have separated, the
tomatoes
are placed in
container
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the container
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. The following step is that
tomatoes
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the tomatoes
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in
container
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the container
a container
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are crushed, and
then
sugar, vinegar,
salt
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and salt
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should be added. Once the mixture is boiled,
then
leave it for two hours.
Next
,
ketchup
bottles are filled with the mixture, and
ketchup
bottles are labelled. At
this
point, newly made
ketchups
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ketchup
kinds of ketchup
bottles of ketchup
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are tested
quality
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for quality
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control by factory workers, and once the
ketchups
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ketchup
kinds of ketchup
bottles of ketchup
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checked
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, bottles are packed into boxes, which take the boxes of
ketchup
to supermarkets.
Finally
, you can enjoy the
ketchup
with
hamburger
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a hamburger
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and fries.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • production process
  • raw material
  • final product
  • selection
  • preparation
  • washing
  • sorting
  • peeling
  • deseeding
  • quality control
  • cooking
  • concentration
  • thickening
  • seasoning
  • additional ingredients
  • spices
  • sugar
  • vinegar
  • flavor concentration
  • bottling
  • packaging
  • distribution
  • safety standards
  • taste test
  • labeling
  • integrity checks
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