I love ketchup. I can’t have fries (or hash browns or turkey bacon or onion rings or…) without it. However, I know it’s high in sugar. Also, I recently read in a magazine how organic varieties of ketchup have a higher lycopene content. Therefore, when I got a chance to sample Wholemato Organic Agave Ketchup, I couldn’t wait! According to the website, Wholemato Organic Agave Ketchup originated “out of an interest to share incredibly tasty food products our friends and family loved, and in an organic way. With our heritage in the south, over 60 combined years of herb and vegetable gardening experience, over 15 combined years of restaurant and professional food preparation experience and concern about the health of the world’s population and the world itself, the foundation for Wholemato was laid.”
I personally never heard of agave before, and I was interested to find out why agave was used as one of the ingredients. Also from the website: “We were exposed to the gift of agave nectar at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. Driven by a concern about Diabetes and sugar induced hyperactivity, organic agave nectar became a perfect substitute for our sweetening needs. We are proud to be offering an Organic Agave Ketchup that rates only seven on the glycemic index! Ketchup elevates so many of our favorite foods to higher levels, so why not do so in a healthy way.”
I tried the Original Wholemato Organic Agave Ketchup on a veggie sausage breakfast sandwich.
I haven’t used regular ketchup since.
Wholemato was a bit sweeter than regular ketchup, but it was also very tasty--it's a lot more flavorful than regular ketchup. Wholemato contains organic tomato puree, organic cider vinegar, organic agave nectar, salt, organic onion powder, a blend of organic herbs and spices, citric acid, organic garlic powder. Compared to the other, non-organic ketchup that was already in my fridge which contains high fructose corn syrup and corn syrup as two of its ingredients, which ketchup do you think I’m going to be using from now on?
Wholemato Organic Agave Ketchup retails for about $5.29 a bottle and you can check the Wholemato website to find a retailer near you.
The Ketchup also comes in a Spicy flavor, and next year they will be launching an Exotic flavor!
***THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED***
Congratulations to MCJunkie!
Wouldn’t you like to try Wholemato Organic Agave Ketchup and taste for yourself how delicious it is? Wholemato is generously sponsoring a wonderful prize package including the following: A bottle of Original Wholemato Organic Agave Ketchup, recipe bookmarks, a refrigerator magnet and a $25 Visa gift card to purchase the ingredients for some of the recipes on the cards (prize package valued at approximately $35.00).
- To enter visit the Wholemato website and comment on which is your favorite recipe.
- You’ll get one extra entry each if you 1)Subscribe to my feed; 2) Blog about this giveaway and link back to Sage and Savvy and Wholemato (be sure to leave a comment for each "entry").
- The deadline for entries is December 26, 2008, 11:59pm HST.
- An eligible entry will be chosen by random.org as the winner; the winner will be notified via email on December 27, 2008 (make sure your email address is in your profile or comment) and will have 3 days to accept.
- Valid for US addresses only.
Good luck!
Thank you to Wholemato for providing the product(s) for review and/or giveaway.
