what a fuction of ketchup in 1830???

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It was in 1830′s when ketchup was used as a medicine in the United States and was called ‘Dr. Miles Compound Extract of Tomato’.To understand how Heinz became a health food, you have to first get a handle on how the saucy tomato product became such a hot commodity.
It’s thought that the name is taken from Asian culture, which in the 17th century, was enjoying a pickled fish sauce, known as ke-tsiap, or kecap. The source of our word ketchup may be the Malay word kêchap, possibly taken into Malay from the Cantonese dialect of Chinese. Kêchap, like our word, referred to a kind of sauce, but a sauce without tomatoes; rather, it contained fish brine, herbs, and spices. It was also believed that it could help prevent colds due to the Vitamin C that it contained.Scientific studies claimed that tomatoes had antioxidants which were beneficial in preventing cancers
The first ketchup recipe was printed in Elizabeth Smith’s The Compleat Housewife, in 1727, but alas, it was still anemic. There were no red fruits of the vine. But in 1812, a recipe for tomato ketchup appeared in the Nova Scotia cookbook of a transplanted American, who called it “love apple” ketchup.