It might just come down to the sweetness, which some reviewers say is the overwhelming and singular note within the ketchup's flavor profile. When you compare Red Gold's ingredients with Heinz's ...

Ketchup—that cheerful red sauce sold in handy glass bottles ... one of the country’s richest food manufacturers, Henry J. Heinz, and an underpaid federal chemist. The two men bonded over ...

Industrial imaging company Lumafield reveals to us the secrets of Heinz’s new ketchup ... was to regulate the flow of ketchup so the bottle squirts out the red goop in a predictable fashion.