How is Salsa Made?

Have you ever wondered how salsa gets from a tomato plant to your chips? Let's find out!

🍅 Step 1: Growing the Ingredients

Farmers grow fresh tomatoes, peppers, onions, cilantro, and garlic under warm sunshine.

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🚜 Step 2: Picking the Vegetables

When everything is ripe, the vegetables are carefully picked and washed so they're clean and fresh.

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🔪 Step 3: Chopping Everything Up

The tomatoes, onions, peppers, garlic, and cilantro are chopped into small pieces.

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🥣 Step 4: Mixing the Salsa

Everything is mixed together with a little salt and lime juice.

Some salsas are cooked.

Others stay fresh!

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🫙 Step 5: Into the Jar!

The salsa is carefully poured into jars, sealed, labeled, and shipped to stores.

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🦖 Rex's Fun Fact

Did you know?

🌶️ Not all salsa is spicy!

Some salsa is mild, while others are medium or hot depending on the peppers used.


Rex's Question

What vegetable gives salsa its bright red color?

🔘 Potatoes

🔘 Tomatoes ✅

🔘 Carrots