“This is the best way to maintain the delicious tangy taste of our Heinz Tomato Ketchup that you know and love.”
This would explain the ‘For Best Results, Refrigerate After Opening’ label, which means that ketchup is good to go in the cupboard until you chuck it on your chips for the first time – after that, it’s time to put it in the fridge.
Heinz has come out in support of ketchup in the fridge (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)
The brand previously stated their allegiance to the fridge back in 2023, writing on X: FYI: “Ketchup. goes. in. the. fridge!!!”
However, we imagine the fridge versus cupboard arguments will be unlikely to do much in the long run, as one Redditor argued that it’s unlikely to have too much of an impact on your dinner either way.
“Nobody ever, in the history of ketchup, has encountered gone off ketchup,” they wrote.
