Old El Paso Thick 'n Chunky Garden Pepper Medium Salsa 16 oz: version 1
Saved 2026-09-25 05:14 by @benjaminsen (bot): Added UPC 046000857312, an Old El Paso medium salsa by General Mills (wanted list). Identity from Buycott and Go-UPC (Thick N Chunky Garden Pepper Medium) and the 2008 Barcodepedia/upcdatabase record (OEP Homestyle Medium Salsa, 16 oz); the name disagreement is kept as a disputed identity gap. No ingredients, nutrition, retailer listing or licensed photo found; the current 16 oz Thick n Chunky Medium is a different UPC (046000853314, Hays Supermarkets).. This is the current version.
Source of v1
# Old El Paso Thick 'n Chunky Garden Pepper Medium Salsa 16 oz <!--product-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
gtin: 00046000857312
name: Old El Paso Thick 'n Chunky Garden Pepper Medium Salsa 16 oz
summary: Medium-heat Old El Paso salsa, a General Mills brand, catalogued under this UPC as Thick 'n Chunky Garden Pepper; the 2008 Barcodepedia record named it OEP Homestyle Medium Salsa, 16 oz.
brand: brand/old-el-paso
category: category/10000200
net_content: 16 oz
<!--/identity-->
## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| ------------------- | --------------------- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | -------- | --------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| brand_owner_at_sale | company/general-mills | | | | | verified | ^gm-brand | General Mills lists Old El Paso among its brands; Wikipedia agrees. |
| manufactured_by | company/general-mills | | | | | sourced | ^buycott | Buycott gives the manufacturer of this UPC as General Mills, Inc. |
| gs1_prefix_owner | company/general-mills | | | | | sourced | ^buycott | Buycott's GS1 fields for this barcode name General Mills, Inc., #1 General Mills Blvd, Minneapolis; prefix 0046000. |
<!--/relations-->
## Markets <!--markets-->
| country | status | source | note | observed | condition | origin | price |
| ------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | -------- | --------- | ------ | ----- |
<!--/markets-->
## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| --------------------------------------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Old El Paso Salsa, Thick N' Chunky, Garden Pepper, Medium | name | en | | |
| OEP Homestyle Medium Salsa | name | en | | 2008 |
| Old El Paso Homestyle Medium Salsa | search | en | | |
<!--/aliases-->
## Observations <!--observations-->
| id | label | kind | market | language | valid_from | valid_until | observed | status | ingredients_text | ingredients_declaration | ingredients_exempt_basis | source | note | net_content | pack_quantity | piece_count | pack_format | model_number |
| --------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ | ----- | ------ | -------- | ---------- | ----------- | ---------- | ----------- | ---------------- | ----------------------- | ------------------------ | -------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------- | ------------- | ----------- | ----------- | ------------ |
| bp2008 | 2008 Barcodepedia record: OEP Homestyle Medium Salsa | label | | en | | | 2008-12-02 | unconfirmed | | | | ^bp2008 | Record originally created by upcdatabase.com, as captured by the Wayback Machine on 2008-12-02; it gives the net content as 16.00 oz and the container as "Container or wrapping". | 16 oz | | | | |
| catalogue | Barcode catalogue name: Thick N' Chunky Garden Pepper Medium | label | | en | | | 2026-09-25 | unconfirmed | | | | ^buycott | Buycott and Go-UPC both name this UPC Old El Paso Salsa Thick N' Chunky Garden Pepper Medium, with no net content; the near-identical strings may share one upstream record. | | | | | |
<!--/observations-->
## Research gaps <!--research_gaps-->
| observation | domain | state | detail | source |
| ----------- | ------------- | -------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------- |
| | identity | disputed | The 2008 record names this UPC OEP Homestyle Medium Salsa, 16 oz; Buycott and Go-UPC name it Thick N' Chunky Garden Pepper Medium. Whether this is one article renamed or a reused code is not established. | ^bp2008 |
| | identity | unknown | Production status: Old El Paso's current US salsa range and the Hays Supermarkets catalogue (Thick 'n Chunky Medium 16 oz is 046000853314) do not show this UPC. | ^hays |
| bp2008 | ingredients | unknown | No ingredient statement for this UPC. | |
| bp2008 | nutrition | unknown | No nutrition panel for this UPC. | |
| | markets | unknown | No retailer listing printing this UPC; the US and Canada attributions on catalogue pages derive from the GS1 prefix, not from a sale. | |
| | images | unknown | No licensed front photo of this pack. | |
| | packaging | unknown | Pack format (jar) not stated by a source for this barcode. | |
| | relationships | unknown | GS1 prefix length for General Mills' 0046000 block is not stated by a source, so nothing is written to the company's gs1_prefixes. | |
<!--/research_gaps-->
## Research <!--research-->
structure_version: 2
reviewed_on: 2026-09-25
<!--/research-->
## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| --------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------- | ----------------- | ------------ | ---------- | ------------ | ------- | ------------ | ----------- | --------------- |
| buycott | https://www.buycott.com/upc/046000857312 | 046000857312 - Salsa Thick N' Chunky Garden Pepper Medium | 2026-09-25 | Buycott | catalogue | | 046000857312 | | | | |
| goupc | https://go-upc.com/search?q=046000857312 | Old El Paso Salsa, Thick N' Chunky, Garden Pepper, Medium (Go-UPC) | 2026-09-25 | Go-UPC | catalogue | | 046000857312 | | | | |
| bp2008 | https://web.archive.org/web/20081202140351/http://en.barcodepedia.com/046000857312/oep-homestyle-medium-salsa | Barcodepedia (2008 archive): OEP Homestyle Medium Salsa | 2026-09-25 | Barcodepedia | catalogue | 2008-12-02 | | | | | upcdatabase.com |
| hays | https://api.freshop.com/1/products?app_key=hays&q=old%20el%20paso%20salsa | Hays Supermarkets product search: Old El Paso salsa | 2026-09-25 | Hays Supermarkets | retailer | | | | | | Freshop |
| gm-brand | https://www.generalmills.com/our-food/brands/old-el-paso | General Mills: Old El Paso | 2026-09-25 | General Mills | manufacturer | | | | | | |
| wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_El_Paso | Old El Paso | 2026-09-25 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | CC BY-SA 4.0 | | |
<!--/references-->
## About <!--about-->
Old El Paso Thick 'n Chunky Garden Pepper Medium Salsa is a medium-heat tomato salsa sold under Old El Paso, the Tex-Mex brand of General Mills.[^gm-brand][^wikipedia] Barcode catalogues name this UPC Old El Paso Salsa, Thick N' Chunky, Garden Pepper, Medium and give General Mills, Inc. of Minneapolis as manufacturer and GS1 registrant.[^buycott][^goupc] The barcode already had a page on the old Barcodepedia in 2008, carried over from upcdatabase.com as "OEP Homestyle Medium Salsa" in a 16 oz pack.[^bp2008] The 16 oz Thick 'n Chunky Medium salsa that US grocers list today carries a different barcode, 046000853314.[^hays]
The Old El Paso brand dates to the Mountain Pass Canning Company; it passed to Pet, Inc. in 1968 and to Pillsbury in 1995, and is now owned by General Mills.[^wikipedia]
<!--/about-->