Life-long Heinz fan for the every-day use. Most things just can't touch it. As a mass-market brand, it's great.
I like to cook and I've even made my own ketchup times- sometimes tomato based, sometimes even bananas (delicious and awesome as a base for a bbq sauce - ketchup was NOT tomato based originally). I was shocked how much I liked this Russian brand-name ketchup. A friend of mine is Russian and picks up "old home" stuff at European groceries/Russian food stores occasionally. They mayonnaise and ketchup from this company are excellent. I gather it's kind of the Heinz of Russia.
Delicious tomato flavor, balanced spices, as good as some of the best boutique ketchups I've tasted. Probably not a bargain since it's imported in small batches, but if you ever find yourself in a store with it and you're a ketchup geek, try it.
Here's a link to the company. If you check out the "about us" section, you can see some pics of a long, proud history of collectivized agricultural production for "make benefit glorious revolution."
I like to cook and I've even made my own ketchup times- sometimes tomato based, sometimes even bananas (delicious and awesome as a base for a bbq sauce - ketchup was NOT tomato based originally). I was shocked how much I liked this Russian brand-name ketchup. A friend of mine is Russian and picks up "old home" stuff at European groceries/Russian food stores occasionally. They mayonnaise and ketchup from this company are excellent. I gather it's kind of the Heinz of Russia.
Delicious tomato flavor, balanced spices, as good as some of the best boutique ketchups I've tasted. Probably not a bargain since it's imported in small batches, but if you ever find yourself in a store with it and you're a ketchup geek, try it.
Here's a link to the company. If you check out the "about us" section, you can see some pics of a long, proud history of collectivized agricultural production for "make benefit glorious revolution."
NMGK || Consumer foods
NMGK Group is Russia’s leading processor of vegetable oils, producing sunflower oil, sunflower meal, sunflower husk pellets, a range of consumer brands of mayonnaise, margarine, toilet soap and laundry soap, as well as specialty margarines and fats
www.nmgk.ru