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 ...

But the story of ketchup actually begins in Asia. We think of ketchup as a thick red sauce, but it was something ... But wait, what about Heinz, the ketchup we know and love?