Is Heinz Lower in Sodium Ketchup Style Sauce ultra-processed?

750 mL Ketchup Sold in Canada

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Flavouring
Glucose
Invert sugar
Maltodextrin
Fructose

13 ingredients
No additives

Less processed ketchup

Less processed isn't automatically healthier, so compare the labels for what matters to you, such as sugar or salt.

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Tomato paste (tomatoes), Sugars (processing marker) (sugar, maltodextrin (ultra-processing marker), glucose-fructose (ultra-processing marker), invert sugar (ultra-processing marker)), Vinegar, Water, Salt (processing marker), Potassium chloride, Natural flavours (ultra-processing marker), Spices

As written on the pack

Tomato paste (tomatoes), Sugars (sugar, maltodextrin, glucose-fructose, invert sugar), Vinegar, Water, Salt, Potassium chloride, Natural flavours, Spices.

What makes it ultra-processed

Cosmetic additives

Added to change how the food looks, feels or tastes, not to keep it safe. A hallmark of ultra-processed food.

Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.

Substances rarely used in home kitchens

Refined or extracted in factories, such as syrups made from starch or isolated proteins. The other hallmark of ultra-processed food.

Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
Invert sugar Invert sugar is ordinary sugar split into glucose and fructose with acid or enzymes.
Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.

2 ingredients that would only make it processed

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 155 ketchup

From least to most processed, this one ranks 154th. 54% of the ketchup here are ultra-processed.

Ranked by NOVA group, then by the number of ultra-processing signs, additives and ingredients. Our ordering, not part of NOVA.

All 155 ketchup, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0057000038557, last edited 1 April 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
Photo: Open Food Facts contributors, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The NOVA group is an automated estimate from crowdsourced data: a missing or mistyped ingredient can change it.
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.