Original Hot Sauce

Breakdown

Ultra-processed · 1 ingredient to avoid

Texas Pete Original Hot Sauce scores 74/100 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. Per serving it carries 0g protein. 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.

Texas Pete Original Hot Sauce lists 8 ingredients, starting with Vinegar, Aged Peppers, Peppers, Salt and Water. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

2 kcal per serving, or 40 kcal per 100g. Calories are only part of the picture — Tallow scores Texas Pete Original Hot Sauce on what the ingredients are, not how many calories they carry.

At 74/100 Texas Pete Original 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.