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That list of ingredients is awful. “Red jalapeno, sugar, water, salt acetic acid, garlic, natural flavor, xanthan gum, sodium metabisulfite, and/or sodium bisu

• kdheiwns 6mo ago
  How much sauce are you putting on your food though? 17% sugar is bad in a drink where it adds up fast, but for a hot sauce where you're using maybe 2 teaspoons max (likely less), that's like 1-2 grams of sugar. Essentially a rounding error in your daily intake. Sure, you can skip sugar entirely if you want to. But then you're getting a different flavor entirely. Southeast Asian stuff is often sweet and spicy and gets that flavor through sugar. No way around it, unless you're using artificial sweeteners.
  • Stratoscope 6mo ago
    I think GP was commenting about the taste, not the grams of sugar it adds to your daily intake. And I agree. I like many varieties of hot sauce, but sriracha is just too sweet for me. It's the same reason I am picky about Thai restaurants. So many of them lean hard on the sugar. Not to my taste! I like a more balanced flavor.
• RCitronsBroker 6mo ago
  nothing about this ingredients list is awful, what are you talking about?
  • kcb 6mo ago
    But it has chemicals in it...
    • RCitronsBroker 6mo ago
      i wouldn’t last a day as a food chemist
  • mrguyorama 6mo ago
    For some of us it's a fairly boring taste. Pepper plus vinegar plus sugar is basically spicy ketchup. That's good for some but not for others. I like the taste of peppers but most hot sauces taste more like vinegar or capsaicin than actual peppers. I think I'm sensitive to vinegar, and my spice tolerance is not always high. I find Chili crisp to get me what I want.
• ThrowawayR2 6mo ago
  If you don't want sugar, Huy Fong's chili garlic sauce is an option.