Barbecue Sauce Original

Breakdown

Ultra-processed · 6 ingredients to avoid

Sweet Baby Ray's Barbecue Sauce Original 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 protein and 17g 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.

Sweet Baby Ray's Barbecue Sauce Original lists 18 ingredients, starting with High Fructose Corn Syrup, Distilled Vinegar, Tomato Paste, Modified Corn Starch and Salt. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

70 kcal per serving, or 194 kcal per 100g. Calories are only part of the picture — Tallow scores Sweet Baby Ray's Barbecue Sauce Original on what the ingredients are, not how many calories they carry.

At 5/100 Sweet Baby Ray's Barbecue Sauce Original scores worse than most pasta & cooking sauces we have scored. A higher-scoring option in pasta & cooking sauces is Trader Joe's Organic Tomato Sauce at 100/100.