Every Sauce amalgamates a staggering number of condiments. Does it actually contain every sauce imaginable? The bottle itself answers this with a fine-print disclaimer at the bottom of the label ...

But the increasing use of airtight containers to bottle soy sauce by brands has begun breaking that habit in the last 10 years or so, as they allow the condiment to be kept at room temperature.

Ketchup—that cheerful red sauce sold in handy glass bottles—first came on the American ... Sebastian Mueller—to begin developing condiments that would need no chemical additives.