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Making a Better Ketchup- Heinz Organic

Category : Healthy eating, ketchup, no corn syrup, organic ketchup

One of my secret indulgences is ketchup.  I love it.  On everything… except fruit….and nuts…well maybe I’m exaggerating  just a little.   But I do love ketchup and it’s a been family tradition for many years.  One of my parents first arguments, and perhaps the ultimate demise of their marriage began when my father took the beautiful steak my mother made him and drenched it with ketchup.  My mother’s view– a culinary disaster and the ultimate insult to her cooking, love, and womanhood.  For my father, no greater love can one have than to bestow upon a food the honor of copious mounds of ketchup.  It was clear at a young age that I had inherited the “ketchup-loving” gene.  So I was rather distressed to learn, despite the healthy lycopenes, most ketchup is loaded with corn syrup.  Dahhhh!  Well Heinz Organic Tomato Ketchup is not only made with organic tomatoes, there’s NO corn syrup.  OK, it has sugar, but that doesn’t bother me as a third ingredient behind tomatoes and vinegar.    Even better, according to taste tests, this ketchup fares even better  than the original.   Evidently the Chowhounds agree.  (Disclaimer:  I have no financial connection to the Heinz Company.  I can only wish)