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Is Ketchup Healthy? What One Tablespoon Really Adds Up To

Audio from the Clean Food Score video of the same name; the video shows the labels and scores on screen.

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Is ketchup healthy? One tablespoon of classic Heinz is twenty calories, four grams of added sugar and 180 mg of sodium in its USDA record, and its label lists two corn syrups. We compare five ketchup labels and their scores and do the serving math against FDA daily values (as of October 2026).

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Products featured (Amazon links, with our 0–100 label score):
• Primal Kitchen Organic Unsweetened Squeeze Ketchup — 100/100
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Chapters
0:00 One Tablespoon
0:50 What Ketchup Is, Legally
1:35 The Serving Math
2:39 The Bottles We Checked
3:42 Less Sugar or a Simpler List
4:32 A Quick Ketchup Check
5:11 Your Turn

Product scores are Clean Food Score's 0–100 label scores as shown on cleanfoodscore.com on 2026-10-16. Recipes change, so read the package you buy. We read labels; this is not medical advice.

Music
"Fresh Air" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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"Almost Bliss" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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"Friday Morning" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Sound effects: Kenney (kenney.nl), CC0.

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