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Eating fries without ketchup? Climate change puts these sauces in crisis Can you imagine a scene like this? On the huge table, there is no pizza sauce for pizza, no mustard for hot dogs, no Thai sweet chili sauce for pho, no salsa for corn chips... The original delicious food lacks that sauce. , often overshadowed by the loss of a soul. However, under the influence of climate change, these common sauces, which are indispensable to life, are also facing a crisis of shortage. Failed tomato harvest, hit 3 sauces The biggest impact was the poor harvest of tomatoes. Tomatoes are the main ingredient in tomato sauce, Mexican salsa, Marinara sauce, pizza sauce and pasta sauce. It is also indispensable for french fries and hamburgers, and it is indispensable for pizza and pasta. However, this year's drought in California has put the supply of this daily seasoning in crisis. According to statistics, the output of California tomato processing plants accounts for 1/4 of the world, but it is declining year by year. USDA figures show that California's tomato production has declined for six consecutive years since 2015, from 14.4 million tons to an estimated 11.7 million tons this year. The persistent drought has also made farmers miserable. "Our need for irrigation water is extremely urgent," said Mike Montna, director of the California Tomato Growers Association. He did not shy away from saying that it is now approaching the critical point where production cannot supply market demand. Rick Blankenship, vice president of agricultural operations at Woolf Farming, said: "This year's harvest was much lower than expected." In addition to lack of water, this year has been particularly hot, which has caused the tomatoes to grow small. "One plant The tree has a lot of tomatoes, but they're too small!" Under the shortage of supply, the price of tomatoes has risen steadily. Tomato prices hit an all-time high of $105 a tonne this year, with U.S. tomato sauce prices up 17 percent in July from a year earlier and ketchup prices jumping 23 percent. But the most worrying thing is that there may be no market. R. Greg Pruett, sales and energy manager of Ingomar Packing Co., one of the world's largest tomato processing plants, said bluntly: "Inventories have fallen to extremely low levels. If you haven't signed up before, you want to buy a lot. You can't buy ketchup at any price." The must-have Thai sweet and spicy sauce is on the rise, and Asian restaurateurs are going crazy Also affected by the drought is Sriracha, a Thai sweet and spicy sauce commonly found in restaurants. In April of this year, HSBC, which makes Sriracha sweet chili sauce, reluctantly stated in a letter to distributors that their products had an unprecedented shortage and could not accept any orders until September. The reason is that "the poor spring chili harvest is beyond our control, and without this basic ingredient, we cannot produce anything"! Many restaurants and lovers of Sriracha sweet chili sauce immediately rushed to various supermarkets to buy them as soon as they heard the news to avoid running out of stock. An Asian restaurant owner frowned and said, "Whether it's hor fun, fried dumplings, sushi rolls, Vietnamese cold spring rolls and other dishes, use it." According to Guillermo Murray Tortarolo, a climate and ecosystem researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Sriracha is made from special Mexican red peppers that only grow in northern Mexico and the southern United States. This red pepper can only be grown for the first 4 months of the year and requires constant irrigation. This year, however, a prolonged drought in Mexico has made irrigation difficult, resulting in a sharp drop in red pepper production. Long before it was really out of stock, Sriracha Sweet Chili Sauce started to increase in price like crazy. Michael Csau, the owner of the Pho Viet restaurant in Washington, sighed, "It used to be about $30-32 a box, but now it costs $50." If the price goes up again, the brand will have to be changed, but the customer's taste is very cunning. Dijon mustard shortage, the French can't take it In France, the shortage of Dijon mustard is causing widespread panic. Mustard is to the French what soy sauce is to the Taiwanese. It is a necessity in life. The French always add a spoonful of Dijon mustard to any meat dish. So when the mustard shelves in the supermarket are empty, the French are completely unacceptable, and even conspiracy theories abound. Yet again, it's climate change to blame - Canada, where Dijon mustard is made from mustard seeds, suffered a severe heatwave last summer that cut seed production by as much as half. Canada is the world's largest exporter of mustard seeds, and up to 80% of France's mustard seeds come from here. The other two mustard seed-producing countries, Ukraine and Russia, have also suffered from sharply reduced production due to the war, making the situation worse. A Canadian Department of Agriculture spokesperson told CNN that Canada will export 157 tons of mustard seeds to France in 2021, down 80% from the previous year, and 5 The annual average was 94.9% lower. Luc Vandermaesen, general manager of Reine de Dijon, the third-largest mustard producer in France, said that almost all the mustard seeds on the market were sold out, so that their mustard production was probably only 20% of the normal time. "Even though we get more than 50 calls a day to order, we can't take it," he said, shaking his head. Waves of sauce shortages have taught many people that many things we take for granted have become rare and precious in the face of climate change.
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