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El Pato Hot Sauce

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Ingredients · 8

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Common questions

Is El Pato Hot Sauce healthy?

El Pato Hot Sauce scores 37/100 on Tallow — our avoid 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 El Pato Hot Sauce?

El Pato Hot Sauce lists 8 ingredients, starting with Water, Dried Chili Peppers, Salt, Acetic Acid and Spices. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

Does El Pato Hot Sauce contain seed oils?

No. Nothing in El Pato Hot Sauce’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 El Pato Hot Sauce?

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

How does El Pato Hot Sauce compare to other hot sauce?

At 37/100 El Pato Hot Sauce scores worse than most hot sauce we have scored. A higher-scoring option in hot sauce is Louisiana Original Hot Sauce at 95/100.

Is El Pato Hot Sauce organic?

El Pato Hot Sauce is not certified organic in our data.

Full methodology: how we score products.

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