{
 "id": "mango-habanero",
 "names": {
  "name": "Mango habanero",
  "aliases": [
   "mango hab",
   "sweet heat"
  ],
  "said": "Sits near the top of a chain's heat ladder without being the top rung, which is usually something with a name like atomic."
 },
 "region": [
  "us"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "base": "other",
  "heat": "hot"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "A sweet-then-hot wing sauce: mango purée and corn syrup in front, habanero and cayenne behind. Orange, thick, and built to be tossed. It is the standard second-from-the-top rung on a chain wing board — hot enough to be a choice, sweet enough to finish.",
  "story": "It belongs to the sauce-board era. As the market for chicken wings expanded, restaurants began creating and using a variety of sauces beyond Buffalo, some drawn from Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Caribbean and Indian cooking, and some invented as combinations — Blueberry BBQ Wing Sauce and Maple/Bacon Glaze among the examples — to hold customers' interest and grow the business.\n\nMany bars and restaurants also build a deliberately extra-hot sauce for wing-eating challenges, and reward the people who finish with a photograph on the wall, a T-shirt, a free meal, or some combination.\n\n*Inference —* mango habanero is the rung below that. It is where a board puts real heat that a table can still eat a whole basket of, which is why almost every chain carries a version and almost none of them publishes a number for it.",
  "how": "Toss, warm or cold — it is thick enough to cling without butter. Chains serve it on bone-in and boneless alike. A kitchen building its own reduces mango purée with vinegar and sugar and blends habanero in at the end, off the heat, because habanero's aroma cooks off before its heat does.",
  "today": "On chain boards nationally. As of 16 September 2026 the USDA label panel for Sweet Baby Ray's Mango Habanero Wing Sauce reads 100 mg sodium and 7 g sugar in a 1-tablespoon serving. Five chiles are named on that label — cayenne, habanero, chipotle, chili powder and chili de arbol — and no Scoville number is published for any of it, which is the pattern across this whole shelf."
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "atomic",
   "as": "The word for the rung above this one, where a board stops being a menu and starts being a dare.",
   "rel": "term"
  },
  {
   "to": "sweet-chili-sauce",
   "as": "The same sweet-then-chile idea, reached through sugar and vinegar instead of fruit purée.",
   "rel": "kin"
  },
  {
   "to": "hot-honey",
   "as": "The other sweet-heat pour on the board, with honey doing the sweetening.",
   "rel": "kin"
  },
  {
   "to": "buffalo-wild-wings",
   "as": "Carries a version on a board where Buffalo is one sauce among more than a dozen.",
   "rel": "place"
  },
  {
   "to": "wingstop",
   "as": "One of thirteen wing sauces on the board, some of them running only for a marketing window.",
   "rel": "place"
  },
  {
   "to": "buffalo-sauce",
   "as": "The sauce the board was built around, and the one this sits several rungs above on heat.",
   "rel": "contrast"
  },
  {
   "to": "boneless-wings",
   "as": "Ordered with it as often as bone-in, because the sauce is thick and the pieces are small.",
   "rel": "dish"
  },
  {
   "to": "the-toss",
   "as": "Goes in the bowl thick and cold, and still coats.",
   "rel": "fry"
  }
 ],
 "confusable_with": [
  {
   "id": "sweet-chili-sauce",
   "tell": "Fruit and corn syrup. Mango habanero leads with high fructose corn syrup and mango purée; sweet chili is water, sugar and pickled chilli."
  }
 ],
 "profile": {
  "kind": "bottle",
  "base": "other",
  "maker": "Sweet Baby Ray's Inc.",
  "town": null,
  "state": null,
  "ingredients": [
   "high fructose corn syrup",
   "water",
   "distilled vinegar",
   "mango puree",
   "orange juice concentrate",
   "modified corn starch",
   "aged cayenne red pepper",
   "salt",
   "aged habanero pepper",
   "chipotle pepper puree (water, chipotle pepper)",
   "red bell pepper",
   "garlic",
   "natural flavor",
   "chili powder (chili pepper, spice, salt, garlic)",
   "spice",
   "dried chili de arbol pepper",
   "paprika",
   "xanthan gum",
   "ascorbic acid",
   "tomato paste",
   "potassium sorbate and sodium benzoate and sodium metabisulfite (preservatives)",
   "natural smoke flavor",
   "sulfiting agents"
  ],
  "pepper_rank": 7,
  "vinegar_rank": 3,
  "fat_rank": 0,
  "tomato_rank": 20,
  "sugar_rank": 1,
  "mustard_rank": 0,
  "soy_rank": 0,
  "serving_tbsp": 1,
  "sodium_mg_per_tbsp": 100,
  "sugar_g_per_tbsp": 7,
  "scoville": null,
  "heat_claim": null,
  "source": "s:fdc-sweet-baby-rays-mango-habanero",
  "url": "https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/food-details/2629740/nutrients",
  "accessed": "2026-09-16",
  "note": "Sweet Baby Ray's Mango Habanero Wing Sauce, 16 fl oz. Label serving is 1 Tbsp (18 mL), so the per-tablespoon figures are the label's own. pepper_rank 7 is aged cayenne red pepper, the first chile listed; the habanero the sauce is named for sits at 9, behind salt, and four more chiles follow it. The USDA transcription prints 'TOMATO PAST' at position 20 — read as tomato paste. Everything from rank 7 down is inside the 'contains less than 2% of' block, so the ranks there order the block, not the mass. No Scoville number, and no heat word on the front label beyond the flavour name."
 },
 "recipes": [
  {
   "title": "Sweet Baby Ray's Mango Habanero Wing Sauce, as labelled",
   "source": "s:fdc-sweet-baby-rays-mango-habanero",
   "license": "ingredients-only",
   "url": "https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/food-details/2629740/nutrients",
   "region": "United States",
   "ingredients": [
    "high fructose corn syrup",
    "water",
    "distilled vinegar",
    "mango puree",
    "orange juice concentrate",
    "modified corn starch",
    "aged cayenne red pepper",
    "salt",
    "aged habanero pepper",
    "chipotle pepper puree",
    "red bell pepper",
    "garlic",
    "natural flavor",
    "chili powder",
    "spice",
    "dried chili de arbol pepper",
    "paprika",
    "xanthan gum",
    "ascorbic acid",
    "tomato paste",
    "potassium sorbate, sodium benzoate and sodium metabisulfite",
    "natural smoke flavor",
    "sulfiting agents"
   ],
   "note": "Ingredients only, in label order, from the USDA branded-food panel. No method: a maker's process is not published and would not be free to copy if it were."
  }
 ],
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  "s:wp-buffalo-wing",
  "s:wp-wingstop",
  "s:fdc-sweet-baby-rays-mango-habanero",
  "s:wp-scoville-scale"
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  },
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   "profile": {
    "tier": "harvested",
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    "fetched_at": "2026-09-16"
   },
   "names.said": {
    "tier": "tradition",
    "note": "the position on a chain heat ladder is general menu practice, not a cited ranking"
   },
   "text.how": {
    "tier": "tradition",
    "note": "the habanero-at-the-end point is general kitchen practice"
   },
   "text.today": {
    "tier": "harvested",
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   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "medium",
 "schema": 1,
 "type": "sauce",
 "images": [],
 "updated": "2026-09-16",
 "blurb": "A sweet-then-hot wing sauce: mango purée and corn syrup in front, habanero and cayenne behind. Orange, thick, and built to be tossed.",
 "region_terms": [
  {
   "key": "us",
   "name": "The United States",
   "state": null,
   "note": "use when a node belongs to the whole country"
  }
 ],
 "kin_out": [
  {
   "to": "atomic",
   "type": "term",
   "name": "atomic",
   "as": "The word for the rung above this one, where a board stops being a menu and starts being a dare.",
   "rel": "term"
  },
  {
   "to": "sweet-chili-sauce",
   "type": "sauce",
   "name": "Sweet chili sauce",
   "as": "The same sweet-then-chile idea, reached through sugar and vinegar instead of fruit purée.",
   "rel": "kin"
  },
  {
   "to": "hot-honey",
   "type": "sauce",
   "name": "Hot honey",
   "as": "The other sweet-heat pour on the board, with honey doing the sweetening.",
   "rel": "kin"
  },
  {
   "to": "buffalo-wild-wings",
   "type": "place",
   "name": "Buffalo Wild Wings",
   "as": "Carries a version on a board where Buffalo is one sauce among more than a dozen.",
   "rel": "place"
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  {
   "to": "wingstop",
   "type": "place",
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   "as": "One of thirteen wing sauces on the board, some of them running only for a marketing window.",
   "rel": "place"
  },
  {
   "to": "buffalo-sauce",
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   "name": "Buffalo sauce",
   "as": "The sauce the board was built around, and the one this sits several rungs above on heat.",
   "rel": "contrast"
  },
  {
   "to": "boneless-wings",
   "type": "dish",
   "name": "boneless wings",
   "as": "Ordered with it as often as bone-in, because the sauce is thick and the pieces are small.",
   "rel": "dish"
  },
  {
   "to": "the-toss",
   "type": "fry",
   "name": "the toss",
   "as": "Goes in the bowl thick and cold, and still coats.",
   "rel": "fry"
  }
 ],
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   "id": "s:wp-buffalo-wing",
   "kind": "wikipedia",
   "title": "Buffalo wing",
   "publisher": "Wikipedia",
   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_wing",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16"
  },
  {
   "id": "s:wp-wingstop",
   "kind": "wikipedia",
   "title": "Wingstop",
   "publisher": "Wikipedia",
   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingstop",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16"
  },
  {
   "id": "s:fdc-sweet-baby-rays-mango-habanero",
   "kind": "dataset",
   "title": "Sweet Baby Ray's Mango Habanero Wing Sauce — branded food label (FDC ID 2629740)",
   "publisher": "USDA FoodData Central",
   "url": "https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/food-details/2629740/nutrients",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16"
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  {
   "id": "s:wp-scoville-scale",
   "kind": "wikipedia",
   "title": "Scoville scale",
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   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoville_scale",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16"
  }
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   "tier": "cited",
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   "tier": "cited",
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  },
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   "tier": "tradition",
   "note": "the habanero-at-the-end point is general kitchen practice"
  },
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   "tier": "harvested",
   "source": "s:fdc-sweet-baby-rays-mango-habanero"
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  {
   "from": "caribbean-jerk",
   "type": "style",
   "name": "Jerk wings",
   "as": "The wing board's sweet-and-scotch-bonnet register, arrived at from a chain kitchen rather than a jerk pan.",
   "rel": "kin"
  },
  {
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   "name": "Sweet chili sauce",
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   "rel": "kin"
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  {
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   "as": "One of the sauces off the board, and an argument about heat that a chain menu made national.",
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  {
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   "name": "Peppa's Jerk Chicken",
   "as": "The bar-menu descendant of a scotch-bonnet sauce like the one poured here.",
   "rel": "kin"
  },
  {
   "from": "atomic",
   "type": "term",
   "name": "atomic",
   "as": "The rung below it on most chain lists — heat with a fruit to hide behind.",
   "rel": "sauce"
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  {
   "from": "hot-sauce-labels",
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   "as": "A flavour that lives mostly as a label and a menu line rather than as a bottle.",
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  }
 ]
}