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    Popular US Ketchup Brands Really From China w/ Hidden Additive

    8.7KViews Modified: Mar 20, 2025 · Published: May 26, 2022
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    Ketchup Scam: Popular US Brands Really From Xinjiang, Hidden Additives
    Image source: My screenshot from the Tianz China Tomato Paste Co., Ltd. (which has since been removed from their site)

    What I’ve just learned this week about tomato ketchup and other tomato products makes me sick. It reminds me of the ongoing olive oil scam and learning of the long list of popular olive oils that failed the purity test.

    Almost a third (31%) of the worldwide tomato supply comes from Xinjiang, although the Chinese call it “foreign eggplant” and don’t prefer it.  As of 2017, China ranked first in worldwide tomato production. Dozens of countries now eat their GMO tomatoes (even with an organic label), including the UK, Australia, Germany, Russia and the U.S..

    The documentary The Empire of Red Gold explains China’s role in the global tomato in­dustry in shocking detail.

    If we purchase store-bought tomato products, it’s likely we’re eating GMO Chinese tomatoes with undisclosed additives! 54 minutes.

    China pays workers (including Uyghurs) for what they pick at a rate of 0.01 Euro per kilo, equaling half a penny for picking and packing a kilo (2.2 pounds) of tomatoes.

    The tomatoes are genetically-modified to be extremely durable, which ensures they fall to the ground and do not bruise. If you throw one of these tomatoes to the ground, it does not burst but instead bounces. This benefits the low-income workers who are often women with babies strapped to their backs, or have their small children walk­ing in the fields helping with the work. If the tomatoes are accidentally stepped on by a small child, it does not harm the tomatoes.

    What A Scam!

    The Empire of Red Gold shows how suppliers of tomato manufacturing equipment in Parma, Italy began the relationship years ago. The Italians taught the Chinese how to run the equipment and produce the tomato product. Silvestro Pieracci, former trader at Gandolfi Group says the deal was, “I give you the machines for production, you carry out your own production, and when you have finished, you give me the products to sell and recover the money for the machines that I have given you.”

    What’s that White Substance They Add?

    It is becoming more and more common for food to contain additives that are not listed on the ingredient list. When manufacturers use “industry standard” ingredient in their products, they do not have to list it on the ingredient list. This happens with tomatoes coming here from China.

    At timestamp 39:00-40:45 in the documentary above, Ma Zhenyong, director of one of the biggest Chinese exporters was giving the producer of the film a tour of the facility when the producer saw a white substance going into the tomato sauce in large quantities. When asked by a translator to identify the substance, he said, “I cannot answer that. This is our recipe. I cannot talk about it. These additives are legiti­mate. We filed our recipe at the Chinese Goods Inspection and Examination Office. We only add what is filed there.”

    The white powder is soybean, starch, and maltose (malt sugar) powder, used as a thickener, and possibly other ingredients.

    Zhenyong said privately to the translator, “With regards to our production, 80% of the product is the raw material, tomato. In the remaining 20%, there is soybean, starch, maltose. The best thing is not to talk about the substances that are added.”

    The producer says, “According to my information, some barrels of Chinese tomato concentrate contain up to 55% additives. It’s a method of lowering manufacturing costs since the additives are cheaper than tomatoes. The reason they can cut their products with soy is because of an agreement with their distributors. The entire production and distribution chain is complicit in this fraud. Only the consumer is fooled.”

    For those of us with food sensitivities (corn or another unknown allergen), or those who care about the food they eat, these “Industry Standards” poses a real problem because there is no way of knowing what is in the food. Undisclosed ingredients likely are to blame for causing health issues in countless people.

    [Excerpts from Weston A. Price article. More sources here, here, here, and here.]

    Ketchup & Pasta Sauce Brands Coming From China

    Basically, any food company can order Chinese grown tomato products and affix their own label. It is a process called Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM).

    The brands featured in this image (which was on the Tianz site) are surely coming from China, but the image has now been removed.

    These companies can be verified as selling Chinese tomato products from the Tianz website. (click links to see the actual labels):

    • S&W Premium

    • Red Gold

    • Muir Glen

    • Sir Kensington

    • Hunt’s Sauce

    • Gino

    • Hunt’s ketchup and Del Monte (look closely at the thumb print images on the left in the link)

    • Organicville Organic

    • 365 Whole Foods ketchup (the image has now been removed)

    • Heinz ketchup (removed)

    • Contadina (removed)

    (UPDATE): Within a week of posting this article, this image of jarred marinara sauces (another of my screenshots from the Tianz site), was also taken down.

    Ketchup Scam: Popular US Brands Really From Xinjiang, Hidden Additives
    (source)

    Please do your own research before buying these tomato products as seen in the image above. Sadly, separate pages on these specific products have been removed, (but I saw them with my own eyes):

    • Rao’s Marinara

    • Mario Batelli’s Marinara

    • Lidia’s

    • Newman’s Own Marinara and Bombolino

    • Emeril’s

    • Patsy’s

    • Wolfgang Puck

    I will keep updating the brands that say they use Canadian or CA-grown tomatoes: 

    • Annie’s Organic – California (and their 3 amazing BBQ sauces)

    • French’s – Canadian

    • Trader Joe’s organic – California

    • Primal Kitchen – California

    Do you know of others? Please share them in comments!

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    “Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever.“ ~1 Cor. 9:25

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    (Image Source: Tianz China Tomato Paste Co., Ltd. (which has since been removed)

     

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