Extracting DNA from food samples is not trivial because foods are highly heterogeneous and contain many different compounds, including fat, polysaccharides, and other item-specific chemistries that can lead to suboptimal extraction or inhibition of downstream DNA applications. Our NucleoSpin Food kits enable great recovery of even small fragments (< 1 kb) of genomic DNA out of processed, complex food matrices (e.g., ketchup or spices), which generally have very low DNA content as well as poor-quality, degraded DNA.