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Food and dish guide

Hot sauce: allergens and what’s inside

Of 666 packs of hot sauce whose ingredients Open Food Facts reads in full, 9% list soy and 6% list mustard. Most list salt, chili pepper and water.

By Bravoora teamUpdated 13 October 2026Sources checked 13 October 20263 sourcesHow we check

Not for you

for a soy allergy profile, on 9% of these packs

Which allergens are in hot sauce?

Of 666 packs of hot sauce whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full, 9% list soy, 6% list mustard, 6% list gluten and 4% list fish. Another 5% carry a “may contain” line for peanuts, 5% for soy and 5% for sesame. Recipes differ from pack to pack, so the label in your hand is the one that counts.

Soy allergyHeads up9% list soy; 5% more carry a “may contain” line for it.

Mustard allergyHeads up6% list mustard; 3% more carry a “may contain” line for it.

Coeliac or gluten-freeHeads up6% list gluten; 4% more carry a “may contain” line for it.

Fish allergyHeads up4% list fish; 2% more carry a “may contain” line for it.

Celery allergyHeads up2% list celery; 3% more carry a “may contain” line for it.

Egg allergyHeads up2% list egg; 2% more carry a “may contain” line for it.

Not for you when most of these packs list the allergen, Heads up when fewer do or only a “may contain” line names it. In the app, a profile gets Not for you on a pack that lists the allergen and Heads up on one whose “may contain” line names it: it reads the pack in your hand, not these counts.

What is hot sauce usually made of?

The ingredients most packs of hot sauce list, with the share of packs that list each: salt (94%), chili pepper (80%), water (69%) and garlic (64%).

Packs in Open Food Facts, by country of sale: United States 758 · France 621 · Germany 408 · United Kingdom 170.

Counted on 13 October 2026 from the Open Food Facts product database, which volunteers fill from real packs: it shows what these packs list, not every recipe for hot sauce.

Calories and nutrients

Not shown here. Open Food Facts records calories and nutrients per 100 g or per 100 ml without saying which, so a figure for all these packs together could mislead. The pack you buy prints its own, and that is the figure to log.

What kind of food is hot sauce?

In the Open Food Facts categories, hot sauce is a kind of sauce.

Kinds of hot sauceSriracha sauce

What else is hot sauce called?

In EnglishChili saucesPimented saucesChilli sauces

French: Sauces chili, sauce chili
German: Scharfe Saucen, Chilisaucen
Spanish: Salsas de chiles, Salsas picadas
Italian: Salse piccanti, Salse pigmentate
Dutch: Chilisauzen, Pikante sauzen
Polish: Pikantne sosy, Ostre sosy
Swedish: Chilisåser

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Sources

Every share is counted over the packs whose ingredient list Open Food Facts reads in full. A pack lists an allergen when Open Food Facts’ allergen field names it, or when one of its ingredients stands for it by the same two-of-three checks as the ingredient dictionary (tahini is sesame, a cheese is milk). A “may contain” line counts only for an allergen the pack does not list.

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