Frank's Redhot
RedHot Original
Made from one food: aged cayenne red peppers, rated like red and green bell peppers
Taco Bell
Mild sauce
CModerate GoutMarket grade · Moderate · #33 of 34 hot sauce we grade
Better-rated on this shelf
- AGood Frank's Redhot RedHot Original
- AGood Grace Hot pepper sauce, very hot
- AGood Crystal Hot sauce
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Better-rated swaps
Same shelf, a better grade. Ranked by gout rating only.
Grace
Hot pepper sauce, very hot
Made from one food: hot peppers, rated like red and green bell peppers
Crystal
Hot sauce
Made from one food: aged red cayenne peppers, rated like red and green bell peppers
Purine and sugar, by the numbers
| Serving | 1 tsp (5 g) |
|---|---|
| Purine per serving | usually under 1 mg, at most 2 mg (1% of the 400 mg daily guide) |
| Purine per 100 g | at most 44 mg |
| Purine before GoutSafe's weighting | at most 2 mg per serving |
| Main purine source | dried yeast |
| Fructose per serving | 0 g |
| Added sugar per serving | not on the label |
| Total sugar per serving | not on the label |
Where the purine comes from
| Ingredient | Matched GoutSafe food | Purine in that food, per 100 g | Share of the product | Purine at that share, per serving | Counted in the worst case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| yeast extract | dried yeast (D) | 847 mg | up to 5% | 2 mg | 2 mg |
| tomato puree | tomatoes (A) | 7 mg | up to 50% | under 1 mg | under 1 mg |
| chili peppers | green pepper (A) | 2 mg | up to 25% | under 1 mg | under 1 mg |
Purine values come from each matched food's page on GoutSafe. Shares come from label order: US labels list ingredients by weight, so the second ingredient is at most half the product, and anything after "2% or less" is at most 2%. The worst case fills the most purine-dense ingredients to their full share first, until the shares reach the whole product, then applies GoutSafe's weighting by source, which counts plant purines at 0.3, dairy at 0 and organ meat at 1.3 because they raise uric acid by different amounts. The grade uses that worst case. How we rate.
Why it's rated C
- Open Food Facts classes it as ultra-processed (NOVA 4), and GoutSafe's rule keeps ultra-processed foods at Moderate (C) or below. Source on GoutSafe.
- Up to 2 mg of purine per serving, under 2% of the 400 mg daily guide. Source on GoutSafe.
- Yeast extract is one of the most purine-dense ingredients there is, at 847 mg per 100 g dried. Source on GoutSafe.
Estimated from the ingredient label. Labels list ingredients by weight but rarely give amounts, so we grade on the most purine the label allows, which can read stricter than the real recipe and never safer. The label we read has no sugar line, so sugar is not part of this grade. How we rate.
What's on the label
Ingredients: WATER, TOMATO PUREE (WATER, TOMATO PASTE), VINEGAR, CHILI PEPPERS, SALT, SPICES, XANTHAN GUM, POTASSIUM CHLORIDE, SODIUM BENZOATE (AS A PRESERVATIVE), AMMONIUM CHLORIDE, YEAST EXTRACT, NATURAL FLAVORS, CALCIUM LACTATE
Serving: 1 tsp (5 g). Label from USDA FoodData Central (record 2561377), dated 2023-06-29. UPC 021000047208. This label is over a year old and the recipe may have changed. Check the package.
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