Chili Hot Sauce

Name: Chili Hot Sauce
Brand: Trader Joe's

75Clean

Ingredients · 7

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Common questions

Is Trader Joe's Chili Hot Sauce healthy?

Trader Joe's Chili Hot Sauce scores 75/100 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 Trader Joe's Chili Hot Sauce?

Trader Joe's Chili Hot Sauce lists 7 ingredients, starting with Red Chili, Garlic, Water, Modified Tapioca Starch and Acetic Acid. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

Does Trader Joe's Chili Hot Sauce contain seed oils?

No. Nothing in Trader Joe's Chili 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 Trader Joe's Chili Hot Sauce?

Trader Joe's Chili 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 Trader Joe's Chili Hot Sauce compare to other hot sauce?

At 75/100 Trader Joe's Chili 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 Trader Joe's Chili Hot Sauce organic?

Trader Joe's Chili Hot Sauce is not certified organic in our data.

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