Jumbo Hot Sauce

Breakdown

Ultra-processed · 4 ingredients to avoid

Pinty's Jumbo Hot Sauce scores 5/100 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. Per serving it carries 0g fiber, 0g protein and 0g sugar. 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.

Pinty's Jumbo Hot Sauce lists 10 ingredients, starting with Hot Peppers, Water, Vinegar, Wheat Flour and Salt. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

1 kcal per serving, or 10 kcal per 100g. Calories are only part of the picture — Tallow scores Pinty's Jumbo Hot Sauce on what the ingredients are, not how many calories they carry.

At 5/100 Pinty's Jumbo 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.