57 originally. (In my hometown, there is a Heinz factory) They grew tomatoes for ketchup here years ago, but the farmers had a problem with Heinz, so Heinz started shipping in tomatoes from somewhere else. Too bad. Our local soil produces great tomatoes, that's why Heinz built this factory here in the first place. (they even have their own variety of ketchup tomato, the Heinz 1370.
Mr.Heinz said in 1922 there would be 57 Varieties.
Heinz a great food product in tins, not so popular now as people have deep freezes and tins of food are old hat and people ignore this great aspect of food storage.