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Do I need to stockpile Heinz ketchup?

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Redolent · 07/06/2020 15:52

Word has it that US food ‘standards’ - high fructose corn syrup in everything, GMOs, artificial colours and flavours etc - will be making their way to the UK.

As an example, I’ve tried the Heinz ketchup in the US and found it disgusting...sickly sweet. Ingredients attached.

Qs:

  • Is there a chance that Heinz ketchup sold in the UK will become Americanized?
  • What other non-perishable foods night this affect? (I know about the travesty of chlorinated chicken)


Thanks
Do I need to stockpile Heinz ketchup?
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flamingochill · 07/06/2020 15:56
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flamingochill · 07/06/2020 15:57

Hope you've got your flameproof suit on because you're going to be told off for scaremongering about something that's not happened yet

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JustC · 07/06/2020 15:57

I quite like the Tesco Organic Ketchup. We alternate between Heinz and that. So maybe if it comes to that you can switch to a diff brand?

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ChrissyPlummer · 07/06/2020 15:58

Tiptree do a nice one.

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Redolent · 07/06/2020 16:00

@JustC

I quite like the Tesco Organic Ketchup. We alternate between Heinz and that. So maybe if it comes to that you can switch to a diff brand?

I’ve tried normal Tesco ketchup and I can detect the tomato purée (rather than tomato) straight away, so I’m assuming the organic version is the same. But I’m open to other ketchup variants should it come to it.
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Fluffybutter · 07/06/2020 16:00

Well they’ve ruined Cadbury chocolate so I wouldn’t be surprised .

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wowfudge · 07/06/2020 16:01

Without doing a taste test I can't comment on the flavour of the US version, but the ingredients aren't really that different. Fructose syrup is a sugar.

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GrandAltogetherSo · 07/06/2020 16:02

American popular foodstuffs are mostly full of crap and taste vile, so you’re not being unreasonable.

I would recommend looking at Aldi and Lidl brand foods. I buy all my chocolate from them as the ones I buy don’t contain, palm oil/corn syrup. They also sell an organic ketchup too.

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flamingochill · 07/06/2020 16:03
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MockersxxxxxxxSocialDistancing · 07/06/2020 16:05

Lidl ketchup is the only other apart from Heinz that does not contain the appalling "modified starch."

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TerrapinStation · 07/06/2020 16:09

You know it's OK to go and buy as much as you think you'll eat before it goes out of date, no need to ask permission , fill ya boots (or in this case cupboards) but by posting this you might encourage panic buying so defeating the object.

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MockersxxxxxxxSocialDistancing · 07/06/2020 16:12

Heinz responsible for the brilliant marketing scam involving salad cream. Said demand was in freefall and they might have to stop making it. Cue rush to shops to clear the shelves, leading to news reports so the shelves were cleared all over again. People who'd forgotten all about salad cream rushed out to get some before it disappeard and remembered how much they liked it, so kept on buying it.

Salad cream production 'saved.'

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MissConductUS · 07/06/2020 16:18

Word has it that US food ‘standards’ - high fructose corn syrup in everything, GMOs, artificial colours and flavours etc - will be making their way to the UK

Only if your government allows it. The US has no power to modify your food regulations. Speak up to your MP's if you don't want it to happen.

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MockersxxxxxxxSocialDistancing · 07/06/2020 16:20

It's the post-Brexit trade negotiations MissC

We're headed for No Deal with the EU and we either have to cut a quick deal with the US or we'll be gnawing tree-bark by 2022.

Johnson spent the weekend playing tennis with the US ambassador who called European food standards a museum and said we should sign up to hormones, invert corn syrup and bleached meat.

Yummee.

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affor · 07/06/2020 16:24

Heinz ketchup in the U.K. is 25% sugar. You might as well pour it into kids mouths.

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butterpuffed · 07/06/2020 16:27

What's the point of stockpiling Op ? You'll still run out , it'll just take longer.

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Redolent · 07/06/2020 16:46

@MockersxxxxxxxSocialDistancing

Lidl ketchup is the only other apart from Heinz that does not contain the appalling "modified starch."

I had no idea about this...thanks. Shocking.

Will write to my indolent MP without much hope of success.
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ViciousJackdaw · 07/06/2020 16:48

What's the point of stockpiling Op ? You'll still run out , it'll just take longer

Perhaps OP wishes to avoid going round all the shops looking for it - apparently there's a bit of a bug going round.

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HandsDownRoundTheTown · 07/06/2020 16:49

Biona ketchup is delicious Smile

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1forsorrow · 07/06/2020 16:54

I don't like ketchup.

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BendingSpoons · 07/06/2020 16:56

@butterpuffed

What's the point of stockpiling Op ? You'll still run out , it'll just take longer.

Well yes, but you will get to enjoy it for longer. Surely that's a good thing?

You've got me worried OP!
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BritWifeinUSA · 07/06/2020 16:58

Just buy the “Simply” Heinz ketchup, not the one you gave a picture of.

www.heinz.com/product/00013000626095

Or find an alternative condiment. I can’t think of any foods that I eat that would be improved if I were to put ketchup on them.

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Oblomov20 · 07/06/2020 17:11

All the ketchups I've tried in other countries were very odd. Or I found they tasted peculiar and not like the ketchup I was used to in the UK.

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bridgetreilly · 07/06/2020 17:16

HFCS really is vile. It's not just sugar.

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NoIDontWatchLoveIsland · 07/06/2020 17:36

If people simply do not buy adapted products manufactured to lower US standards the manufacturers wont keep selling them. It may mean people need to choose British or European brands for quite a while in order to buy food that isn't horrific. These may feel expensive next to US junk at rock bottom prices but shouldn't be more relatively than you spend now.

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