Old Bay Hot Sauce

Name: Old Bay Hot Sauce
Brand: Old Bay

80Clean

Ingredients · 11

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Common questions

Is Old Bay Hot Sauce healthy?

Old Bay Hot Sauce 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 Old Bay Hot Sauce?

Old Bay Hot Sauce lists 11 ingredients, starting with Hot Sauce, Aged Red Cayenne Peppers, Distilled Vinegar, Water and Salt. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

Does Old Bay Hot Sauce contain seed oils?

No. Nothing in Old Bay 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 Old Bay Hot Sauce?

Old Bay 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 Old Bay Hot Sauce compare to other hot sauce?

At 80/100 Old Bay Hot Sauce sits in our top band, among the better hot sauce we have scored. A higher-scoring option in hot sauce is Louisiana Original Hot Sauce at 95/100.

Is Old Bay Hot Sauce organic?

Old Bay Hot Sauce is not certified organic in our data.

Full methodology: how we score products.