Cholula Hot Sauce Original

Name: Cholula Hot Sauce Original
Brand: Cholula

80Clean

Ingredients · 9

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Common questions

Is Cholula Hot Sauce Original healthy?

Cholula Hot Sauce Original scores 80/100 on Tallow — our clean band. That number comes from what is on the label: the ingredients, how processed it is, and what it is packaged in. It is not a verdict on your diet — Tallow does not weigh calories, portion size or how often you eat it, so a high score means the ingredients are clean, not that the food is unlimited.

What is in Cholula Hot Sauce Original?

Cholula Hot Sauce Original lists 9 ingredients, starting with Water, Arbol Peppers, Salt, Acetic Acid and Xanthan Gum. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

Does Cholula Hot Sauce Original contain seed oils?

No. Nothing in Cholula Hot Sauce Original’s ingredient list matches a seed oil — canola, soybean, corn, cottonseed, grapeseed, sunflower, safflower, rice bran or peanut oil, or an unspecified "vegetable oil".

How processed is Cholula Hot Sauce Original?

Cholula Hot Sauce Original is NOVA group 4: ultra-processed. That is the top of the scale and the classification the score penalises most heavily.

How does Cholula Hot Sauce Original compare to other hot sauce?

At 80/100 Cholula Hot Sauce Original sits in our top band, among the better hot sauce we have scored. A higher-scoring option in hot sauce is Cloud 23 Organic Hot Sauce at 100/100.

Is Cholula Hot Sauce Original organic?

Cholula Hot Sauce Original is not certified organic in our data.

Full methodology: how we score products.