We try to avoid HFCS in our store bought sauces. Guests brought some sauce over the other day and were taken aback when we asked about the ingredient list on the bottle.
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We don’t mind this article. It’s focused on sugar, sodium, and unusual additives, and they purposefully are looking at the sweetest flavors on the shelf.
if this article points even a few casual eaters to higher quality brands, flavors, products (or even to making their own) then the piece has done some good.Comment
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I'm sorry...BBQ sauce is supposed to somewhat sweet. Otherwise they would call it Sour sauce. Even in Chinese cooking they don't like sour sauce, which is why they add sweet to it. Which is almost like BBQ sauce anyway.
I can see knocking ones with high fructose corn syrup, processed sugars and way too much salt. I get that.
But knocking ones with honey, maple syrup, or unprocessed cain sugars?? It's not like they offered a healthy alternative.
I love it when supposed geniuses write this stuff...They probably wouldn't know BBQ if it hit them in the head.Comment
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As Will Travel alluded to & without readin the article, in my book it IS about the HFCS. Don’t kid yerself, it is not just another sugar. Sugar is not great & I to try rill hard to avoid it, but HFCS I avoid like the plague. That is why Max’s premium sauce does not have it I am going to guess.Comment
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Wait!!!!! Sweet baby Ray's and the whole lot have added sugar!?!?!?!?! No way, how would I ever known that?!?! They are also high in sodium and all kinds of other stuff?!? GTFO!
I kid and laugh here folks. I think just like anything else, moderation is key. I think we all knew that commercial sauces were not he best choice, as far as our health is concerned. That doesn't mean you cant have some fun. Don't drink it, use it for your drip IV or bathe in it and you will be fine.
I do try to avoid HFCS, Soybean oil etc. pretty much anything processed. I can honestly say that I do feel MUCH better overall since dumping those products. Of course, stoping being a lazy bear, loosing 170 lbs and getting in shape also helped enormously. That being said, I do indulge and I do make sure to hit a good sauce from time to time. Nothing wrong with that at all.
I was fine with this article until it started throwing shade at my guy Dave Anderson and Famous Daves! I need to find this writer and square up.
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I cut out refined sugars found in processed/manufacture foods last year, and I have lost 25 lbs. No special diet at all. I did not change the amounts of meat, vegetables, potatoes, oil, butter, etc that I was eating. I didn’t change the amount of wine or whiskey that I drink. Just that one change.
The attached article documents the rise in consumption of refined sugar in the US and UK over the past 300 odd years. What it doesn’t do, but it doesn’t need to cause we all know, is show the rise in obesity over that same time period.
Food for thought
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Yeah, it is amazing what you see when you look back at pictures of people and of events from years and decades past. Not a ton of overweight folks out there. There are many factors, but the introduction of refined sugars has made a HUGE negative impact. Like, my Uncle always told me on his farm when I was hauling water buckets for the hogs........."Ya know......you never see a single fat pioneer in those old pictures!" -
I was reading a history of Sioux County Iowa, and there was an article about county fairs a hundred or more years ago. The hogs that won were huge, and most of it was lard. Lard 12 to 18 inches thick. Highly valued, because everyone used lard for cooking. This was a long time before the "Pork the other white/lean meat" advertising campaign. But just like the molasses they ate they burned it all off.
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All Right. Good to know. 365 BBQ Sauce from Whole Foods did not make the list.
We stopped using high-fructose corn syrup years ago.Comment
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Certainly, packaged BBQ sauces are basically flavored liquified sugar. No doubt.Originally posted by FireMan View Post
But that article is sort of encouraging label reading and making better choices.
Doing a casual comparison of 1 tbsp (via nutrifox) of Open Pit vs randomly selected BBQ, we see:
OPEN PIT- 22 calories
- 4g sugar
- 258 sodium
- 89% carbs, 10% fats, 1% protein
- HFCS (#1 ingredient), 2% or less of sugar
- 27 calories
- 6g sugar
- 162 sodium
- 94% carbs, 4% fats, 2% protein
- sugar (#2 ingredient), brown sugar (#4 ingredient)
- 15 calories
- 2.5g sugar
- 125 sodium
- sugar (#3 ingredient), Molasses (#5 ingredient), Brown Sugar (#8 ingredient), Corn Syrup (less than .5%)
If given a choice between these three? We're choosing Stubb's.
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I’ll always go with which one tastes best…..let’s face it, there ain’t much of what we as a group eat here, that’s health food. Does the average person really consume that much BBQ sauce to worry about it? I might use BBQ sauce once or twice a month at most, not enough to even give it a second thought.
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I thought if you seasoned and cooked it right it didn’t need sauce to cover up mistakes.Comment
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There are very few of any commercial sauces, bbq or otherwise, that aren't questionable health-wise. I make a lot of my own sauce and rubs for this reason. Even then, that only makes them not as bad, not healthy.Comment
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Well, seeing as I rarely purchase, or use, BBQ sauce…it doesn’t really matter to me. If I DO find myself buying a sauce, I just stay well clear of HFCS. Beyond that, I’m not overly concerned. It’s not like we’re sitting around doing shots.
Sure, they all probably have a bit too much sugar and/or sodium but almost nobody is consuming this stuff daily that I can imagine. If an occasional slathering of sauce can be that detrimental, there are other more pressing health concerns I should think.Comment
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Some store bought major brands might not have good reputations, but you might find otherwise for yourself. I first went to Hardy's in Rochester, Minnesota about 35-40 years ago, my first bbq joint venture. Rumor had it, well founded I think, that they used Open Pit as their base. I still buy Open Pit to use on pulled pork. Love it, and won't apologize. I have plans to meet friends at Hardy's in a week or two, and can't wait! That place won't win awards nationally, but their stuff is fine with me. The potatoes smothered with their hot sauce alone are worth the drive for me. Drive ins and dives!
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i Have a soda stream at home. I have been using their syrups as the base for my sauces. They use a great sugar free Dr. Pepper knockoff. add a little vinegar and any other spice you like.Comment
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My wife loves Arby's Sauce, along with a couple of grandchildren. She found it bottled, along with their Horsey Sauce, I think at Wal-Mart. I checked the ingredients. Water, corn syrup, tomato paste, distilled vinegar, high fructose corn syrup & salt are the first six ingredients. My wife has to stay away from the high fructose stuff, so I gave her the bad news. OTOH, I make sourdough (also is supposed to stay away from gluten) chocolate chip cookies and sourdough cinnamon rolls loaded with brown and cane sugar, and those don't bother her. I don't use sauce on much, and make my own rubs so I can control what goes in them, which means mostly brown sugar when I use sugar.Comment
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