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Salt and vinegar are preservatives, but there are no benzoates in Heinz. In other countries I have encountered preservatives, added colors and even artificial t
by palmfacehn 3y ago
Salt and vinegar are preservatives, but there are no benzoates in Heinz. In other countries I have encountered preservatives, added colors and even artificial thickeners in some brands.
- greggsy 3y agoThe thickeners are (along with the obvious reason of thickness) to avoid ‘serum’, which is the undesirable blurt of pale, watery liquid that comes out of you don’t shake it enough.
- treadmill 3y agoOr you could, you know, shake the bottle instead of adding crap to the ketchup.
- pfdietz 3y agoShaking has the additional benefit of reducing the viscosity and making it easier to dispense, due to ketchup being thixotropic.
- palmfacehn 3y agoThat and poor sauce technique. Part of the problem here is people not closing the bottle at the table. Humidity condenses inside of the bottle, which is typically still cold from the refrigerator.
- at_a_remove 3y agoThis constitutes yet another example of where we have substituted a chemical for a physical process.