[blell]

That list of ingredients is awful.

“Red jalapeno, sugar, water, salt acetic acid, garlic, natural flavor, xanthan gum, sodium metabisulfite, and/or sodium bisulfite (sulfiting agent / preservative), potassium sorbate (preservative).”

I’ve had sriracha in the past and it’s disgustingly sweet. Apparently it’s 17% sugar!

[kdheiwns]

How much sauce are you putting on your food though? 17% sugar is bad in a drink where it adds up fast, but for a hot sauce where you're using maybe 2 teaspoons max (likely less), that's like 1-2 grams of sugar. Essentially a rounding error in your daily intake.

Sure, you can skip sugar entirely if you want to. But then you're getting a different flavor entirely. Southeast Asian stuff is often sweet and spicy and gets that flavor through sugar. No way around it, unless you're using artificial sweeteners.

[Stratoscope]

I think GP was commenting about the taste, not the grams of sugar it adds to your daily intake.

And I agree. I like many varieties of hot sauce, but sriracha is just too sweet for me.

It's the same reason I am picky about Thai restaurants. So many of them lean hard on the sugar. Not to my taste! I like a more balanced flavor.

[ThrowawayR2]

If you don't want sugar, Huy Fong's chili garlic sauce is an option.

[RCitronsBroker]

nothing about this ingredients list is awful, what are you talking about?

[mrguyorama]

For some of us it's a fairly boring taste. Pepper plus vinegar plus sugar is basically spicy ketchup. That's good for some but not for others.

I like the taste of peppers but most hot sauces taste more like vinegar or capsaicin than actual peppers. I think I'm sensitive to vinegar, and my spice tolerance is not always high.

I find Chili crisp to get me what I want.

[kcb]

But it has chemicals in it...

[RCitronsBroker]

i wouldn’t last a day as a food chemist