Food · Heinz
Heinz Tomato Ketchup
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Low nutrition · Ultra-processed · per 100 g
Ultra-processed — built with extras a kitchen wouldn’t use. Better as a rare treat, not a Good rating.
Better than most of Condiments — 25 of 33 sit at or below this number.
Council note
Ultra-processed — flavours, extras, a list a kitchen would not write. A dietitian would not make this a weekday habit. Better than most of Condiments — 25 of 33 sit at or below this number.
The pack
Heinz ketchup is tomatoes, vinegar, sugar, and salt. The tomatoes are real. The sugar is why children paint chips with it. A spoon is a condiment; a puddle is a dessert.
How often
Sometimes
Who it’s for
Chip night.
Skip if
You are watching sugar or salt, or you have a celery allergy (extracts can carry it).
Pack
460 g
Origin
Netherlands / UK
A serving
A tablespoon. Count it as a sweet if you go back for more.
- Plenty of tomato
- Plenty of sugar
- Salty
At a glance
How often
Sometimes
Nutrition box
Low
How processed
Ultra-processed
Extras
1 additive
Planet
Mixed footprint · 52/100
Organic
Not organic
Built in a factory with additives, flavours, or refined extras. Cannot be rated Good — a rare treat, not a habit.
Some good signs, some industrial ones. Not the heaviest in the aisle.
No shelf price logged yet. When a shopper posts a receipt to Open Prices, it lands here.
Why this number
Ultra-processed — built with extras a kitchen wouldn’t use. Better as a rare treat, not a Good rating.
Poor · 44/100 · nutrition low
- Nutrition quality44/100
- Ingredients100/100
- How processed16/100
- Organic0/100
Ultra-processed food cannot be rated Good. A factory recipe is a treat, not a habit.
What pulled it down
This nutrition box cannot be rated Excellent
This is a treat pattern. It can only scrape into low Good if the list is clean and it is not ultra-processed.
Ultra-processed food cannot be rated Good
A factory recipe — flavours, colours, or many additives — cannot be rated Good. A sometimes treat, not a daily habit.
Two red lights on the box cannot be rated Good
Two red lights on salt, sugar or saturated fat keep this at Poor, not Good.
A weak-ish nutrition box
About 5.7 teaspoons of sugar in 100 g. Salt is high. A treat pattern.
Ultra-processed
Built in a factory with additives, flavours, or refined extras. A growing pile of research ties a diet of these to poorer health — not because one biscuit is poison, but because the pattern crowds out real food.
What held it up
A quiet ingredient list
No high- or moderate-concern additives. The extras, if any, are pantry-familiar.
Nutrition is half the number. Ingredients a quarter. How processed a fifth. Organic is a small bonus — it cannot rescue a sugary drink or a nitrite ham. How this compares to Nutri-Score
Nutrition · per 100 g
| Energy | 435 kJ |
|---|---|
| Sugars | 22.8 gHigh Noticeably sweet — about 5.7 teaspoons in 100 g. |
| Saturated fat | 0 gLow |
| Salt | 1.8 gHigh Salty. Easy to overshoot a day’s worth if this is a habit. |
| Fibre | 0.7 g |
| Protein | 1.2 g |
| Fruit, veg, nuts | 80 % |
Better neighbours
Same aisle, cleaner number. Ranked by how close the job is — not by who paid.
Ingredients
Tomatoes (148 g per 100 ml), spirit vinegar, sugar, salt, spice and herb extracts (contain celery), spice.
Sugar
Low concernNot a toxin. A teaspoon is a teaspoon. The issue is how many hide in drinks and breakfast.
Tomato
No concernA keep. Ketchup adds sugar; passata does not.
Salt
No concernThe nutrition box already scores it. A pinch in cooking is not a packet of noodles.
Acetic acidE260
No concernIt’s vinegar. No drama.
Spice extract
No concernUsually fine. Celery extracts can matter for celery allergy.
Celery
No concernA labelled allergen in Europe.
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