What Makes Some Ketchup “Fancy?”
Believe it or not, it’s not just some made up advertising puffery but backed by USDA rules!
“Fancy” is a USDA designation that producers are allowed to use for marketing if their product meets the standards of US Grade A/US Fancy tomato ketchup, which possesses a better color, consistency and flavor, and has fewer specks and particles and less separation of the liquid/solid contents than US Grade B/US Extra Standard Ketchup and US Grade C/US Standard Ketchup.
What goes into ketchup grading? Testers look for a lack of tomato skin and seeds in the product, a smooth, uniform texture and a total acidity over one percent, among other things.
Via the Mental Floss.
And of course, now the new dispenser that opens top or bottom for dippers and/or squeezers.
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23 May 2012
5 Comments
There is Heinz ketchup, then there is everything else.
Just 3 days ago, i wondered the same thing.
The best ketchup I’ve ever had was the restaraunt quality stuff at the breakfast buffet at the Embassy Suites in downtown Cleveland. True story.
If it were Standard grade they probably wouldn’t advertise that on the package.
Wonder if the other fast good ketchups are fancy… We just don’t like fast food…