BBQ Sauce

How it scored 38 / 100

Nutrition snapshot

Ingredients 22 listed

• 1 Tomato Purée
  Concentrated cooked tomato product with skin and seeds removed.
  Safe
• 2 Brown Sugar
  Sucrose with residual or added molasses; chemically nearly identical to white sugar plus minor molasses content.
  Moderate
• 3 Vinegar
  Dilute aqueous solution of acetic acid produced by acetic-acid-bacteria fermentation of ethanol from fruit, grain, or other carbohydrate sou…
  Safe
• 4 Sugar
  Sucrose, a disaccharide of glucose and fructose, refined from sugarcane or sugar beets.
  Moderate
• 5 Salt
  Sodium chloride (NaCl), a crystalline mineral compound composed of roughly 40% sodium and 60% chloride by mass.
  Low
• 6 Corn Starch
  Starch isolated from the endosperm of corn kernels. Composed of amylose and amylopectin (glucose polymers).
  Low
• 7 Worcestershire Sauce
  A traditional fermented condiment based on vinegar, molasses, anchovies, tamarind, garlic, onion, and spices.
  Low
• 8 Natural Smoke Flavouring
  Flavoring derived from condensing wood smoke (hardwood pyrolysis), then purifying to remove tar and most polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (P…
  Moderate
• 9 Dextrose
  D-glucose, a simple sugar (monosaccharide). Produced commercially by complete enzymatic or acid hydrolysis of corn starch.
  Moderate
• 10 Onion
  The edible bulb of Allium cepa L., a widely cultivated vegetable in the Allium family that also includes garlic, shallots, and leeks.
  Safe
• 11 Garlic
  Allium sativum, a bulbous plant whose cloves are rich in organosulfur compounds — most notably allicin (formed when garlic is crushed) — plu…
  Safe
• 12 Caramel
  Caramel: a dark colorant made by controlled heat treatment of food-grade carbohydrates; four classes (E150a-d) differ by manufacturing react…
  Moderate
• 13 Red Bell Pepper
  Mature, ripe fruit of the sweet (non-pungent) Capsicum annuum cultivar.
  Safe
• 14 Xanthan Gum
  Xanthan gum is a high-molecular-weight polysaccharide produced by aerobic fermentation of glucose or sucrose by the bacterium Xanthomonas ca…
  Low
• 15 Water
  Water intended for human consumption; the most common ingredient in processed foods and beverages. Bottled water is regulated as a food unde…
  Safe
• 16 Tomato Concentrate
  Concentrated tomato product made by removing water from tomato juice/pulp; includes paste and puree.
  Safe
• 17 Molasses
  Thick, dark syrup byproduct of sugar refining from cane or sugar beet.
  Low
• 18 Corn Syrup
  A sweet, nutritive saccharide mixture produced from corn starch hydrolysate. The high-fructose form (HFCS) contains approximately 42% or 55%…
  Moderate
• 19 Plain Caramel
  Plain (Class I) caramel colour, produced by controlled heat treatment of carbohydrates without ammonium or sulphite compounds. Of the four c…
  Low
• 20 Spice
  A regulatory category (21 CFR 101.22) for aromatic vegetable substances used primarily for seasoning. Excludes onion, garlic, and celery, wh…
  Moderate
• 21 Tamarind
  The pulp of Tamarindus indica fruit pods, with a sweet-sour flavor.
  Safe
• 22 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