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I hadn’t thought much about ketchup when my spouse brought home Heinz Organic Ketchup. I didn’t really think it would be any different, but it tasted awful! We

I hadn’t thought much about ketchup when my spouse brought home Heinz Organic Ketchup. I didn’t really think it would be any different, but it tasted awful! We ended up throwing it out after using it once or twice because it was just so different from what we were used to. A few years later they were out of the regular stuff at the local store, so we ended up with another version (also by Heinz) that uses Stevia instead of sugar. It is also disgusting. I wouldn’t have thought of myself as any kind of ketchup purist or loyal to a brand or whatever, but I’ve become so accustomed to Heinz regular ketchup that even their other versions of the same brand taste wildly off to me.

BoorishBears 4y ago
The best version of Heinz is actually one marketed specifically for not having artificial sweetners: https://www.heinz.com/product/00013000004640/heinz-simply-tomato-ketchup-no-artificial-sweeteners-31-oz-bottle https://www.heinz.com/product/00013000004640/heinz-simply-to... It tastes better (better better, not "healthy" better) than the normal stuff and drops the HFCS
- thaumasiotes 4y ago
  It's a strange branding, since their "tomato ketchup" product also contains no artificial sweeteners. As far as I see, none of their ketchups do.
  - BoorishBears 4y ago
    High Fructose Corn Syrup is considered an artificial sweetener depending on how it's made: https://www.idfa.org/news/letter-from-fda-clarifies-natural-status-of-high-fructose-corn-syrup https://www.idfa.org/news/letter-from-fda-clarifies-natural-... The fact they're branding this as natural, but not the normal formula, would imply this is the reason
herbst 4y ago
It's interesting how different ketchup tastes can be, also culturally to some degree. That green Heinz bottle, not the Stevia one, but with organic tomatoes and sugar, for some reason is one of the best big brand ketchups I've tasted. I don't like their normal ketchup tho, it's just to sweet for my taste.

BoorishBears 4y ago

The best version of Heinz is actually one marketed specifically for not having artificial sweetners: https://www.heinz.com/product/00013000004640/heinz-simply-tomato-ketchup-no-artificial-sweeteners-31-oz-bottle https://www.heinz.com/product/00013000004640/heinz-simply-to... It tastes better (better better, not "healthy" better) than the normal stuff and drops the HFCS

thaumasiotes 4y ago
It's a strange branding, since their "tomato ketchup" product also contains no artificial sweeteners. As far as I see, none of their ketchups do.
- BoorishBears 4y ago
  High Fructose Corn Syrup is considered an artificial sweetener depending on how it's made: https://www.idfa.org/news/letter-from-fda-clarifies-natural-status-of-high-fructose-corn-syrup https://www.idfa.org/news/letter-from-fda-clarifies-natural-... The fact they're branding this as natural, but not the normal formula, would imply this is the reason

herbst 4y ago

It's interesting how different ketchup tastes can be, also culturally to some degree. That green Heinz bottle, not the Stevia one, but with organic tomatoes and sugar, for some reason is one of the best big brand ketchups I've tasted. I don't like their normal ketchup tho, it's just to sweet for my taste.