Student who eats 75kg of tomato ketchup every year
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Melissa Ibbitson is ketchup’s number one fan - because she eats her own body weight in tomato sauce every year.
The 19-year-old has the red stuff with almost every meal and gets through a staggering three bottles a week.
She loves tomato sauce so much that she has even walked out of a restaurant because they didn't stock her favourite condiment.
The theology student, from Lincoln, has been a ketchup fan her whole life, but her addiction really kick-started four years ago.
Her ketchup addiction means she gets through the equivalent of 11 stone of the stuff every year - more than her own body weight.
Melissa's obsession with the sauce has no limits - she had a birthday cake shaped like a ketchup bottle last year and even gets ketchup-themed presents for Christmas.
She said: ‘I can't remember how it became such an obsession but now I can't live without it.
'My friends get really embarrassed when I ask for 12 sachets for my meals at the student's union, and I'll get extras to take home with me.
'I eat so much of the stuff - I dread to think what it's doing to my body.'
The tomato sauce-addict says she dare not think about how much she spends on the sauce - but with the average bottle of ketchup costing £1.85, the average year's supply sets her back about £300.
Melissa owns an 'I love ketchup' tea towel, a personalized ketchup bottle and a ketchup-bottle shaped tin
