Original Legendary Bar-B-Q Sauce

How it scored 55 / 100

Nutrition snapshot

Ingredients 19 listed

• 1 Tomato Purée
  Concentrated cooked tomato product with skin and seeds removed.
  Safe
• 2 Distilled Vinegar
  Dilute (~5%) acetic acid solution produced by fermentation and distillation.
  Safe
• 3 Sugar
  Sucrose, a disaccharide of glucose and fructose, refined from sugarcane or sugar beets.
  Moderate
• 4 Molasses
  Thick, dark syrup byproduct of sugar refining from cane or sugar beet.
  Low
• 5 Salt
  Sodium chloride (NaCl), a crystalline mineral compound composed of roughly 40% sodium and 60% chloride by mass.
  Low
• 6 Spice
  A regulatory category (21 CFR 101.22) for aromatic vegetable substances used primarily for seasoning. Excludes onion, garlic, and celery, wh…
  Moderate
• 7 Corn Starch
  Starch isolated from the endosperm of corn kernels. Composed of amylose and amylopectin (glucose polymers).
  Low
• 8 Brown Sugar
  Sucrose with residual or added molasses; chemically nearly identical to white sugar plus minor molasses content.
  Moderate
• 9 Garlic
  Allium sativum, a bulbous plant whose cloves are rich in organosulfur compounds — most notably allicin (formed when garlic is crushed) — plu…
  Safe
• 10 Guar Gum
  Polysaccharide (galactomannan) extracted from the seeds of the guar plant (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba). E-number E412.
  Low
• 11 Xanthan Gum
  Xanthan gum is a high-molecular-weight polysaccharide produced by aerobic fermentation of glucose or sucrose by the bacterium Xanthomonas ca…
  Low
• 12 Natural Flavouring
  A regulatory umbrella term (21 CFR 101.22) for flavor extracts derived from spices, fruit, vegetable, herb, bark, root, leaf, meat, seafood,…
  Low
• 13 Water
  Water intended for human consumption; the most common ingredient in processed foods and beverages. Bottled water is regulated as a food unde…
  Safe
• 14 Tomato Concentrate
  Concentrated tomato product made by removing water from tomato juice/pulp; includes paste and puree.
  Safe
• 15 Black Pepper
  Dried, ground berries of the Piper nigrum plant.
  Safe
• 16 Paprika
  Ground spice from dried Capsicum annuum peppers.
  Safe
• 17 Chili Pepper
  Fruits of plants in the genus Capsicum used as a spice.
  Safe
• 18 Onion
  The edible bulb of Allium cepa L., a widely cultivated vegetable in the Allium family that also includes garlic, shallots, and leeks.
  Safe
• 19 Thickener
  Generic umbrella term for any substance that increases viscosity. Could be a starch, gum (xanthan, guar, locust bean), pectin, gelatin, modi…
  Low