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 "built": "2026-09-18",
 "count": 22,
 "note": "One row per sauce record carrying a measured profile. Positions are 1-based ingredient order off the label; 0 means the label never lists it; null means nobody here could read a label. Scoville appears only where a maker or a lab published a number.",
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  {
   "id": "buffalo-sauce",
   "name": "Buffalo sauce",
   "url": "sauce/buffalo-sauce/",
   "base": "cayenne-butter",
   "kind": "bottle",
   "maker": "McCormick & Company, Inc.",
   "town": "Springfield",
   "state": "MO",
   "ingredients": [
    "distilled vinegar",
    "aged cayenne red peppers",
    "salt",
    "water",
    "canola oil",
    "paprika",
    "xanthan gum",
    "natural butter type flavor",
    "garlic powder"
   ],
   "pepper_rank": 2,
   "vinegar_rank": 1,
   "fat_rank": 5,
   "tomato_rank": 0,
   "sugar_rank": 0,
   "mustard_rank": 0,
   "soy_rank": 0,
   "serving_tbsp": 1,
   "sodium_mg_per_tbsp": 460,
   "sugar_g_per_tbsp": 0,
   "scoville": null,
   "heat_claim": null,
   "note": "Measured off Frank's RedHot Buffalo Wings Sauce, the ready-to-use bottle, because the sauce a bar mixes at the fryer carries no label at all. Label serving is 1 tbsp (15 mL), so the per-tablespoon figures are the label's own. No butter appears on this label: canola oil at 5 and natural butter type flavor at 8 do that work. The bottle prints no heat word and no Scoville number; Frank's publishes 450 SHU for the Original cayenne sauce but nothing for this one. Springfield, Missouri is the stated production site for Frank's RedHot; McCormick's head office is in Hunt Valley, Maryland.",
   "source": "s:fdc-franks-redhot-buffalo-wings",
   "source_url": "https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/food-details/2039340/nutrients",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "lat": 37.2082,
   "lon": -93.2923
  },
  {
   "id": "lemon-pepper-seasoning",
   "name": "Lemon pepper",
   "url": "sauce/lemon-pepper-seasoning/",
   "base": "citrus-pepper",
   "kind": "bottle",
   "maker": "McCormick & Company, Inc.",
   "town": "Hunt Valley",
   "state": "MD",
   "ingredients": [
    "salt",
    "black pepper",
    "citric acid",
    "onion",
    "sugar",
    "garlic",
    "calcium stearate",
    "silicon dioxide and calcium silicate (to make free flowing)",
    "celery seed",
    "lemon oil",
    "FD&C Yellow No. 5 Lake"
   ],
   "pepper_rank": 0,
   "vinegar_rank": 0,
   "fat_rank": 0,
   "tomato_rank": 0,
   "sugar_rank": 5,
   "mustard_rank": 0,
   "soy_rank": 0,
   "serving_tbsp": 0.25,
   "sodium_mg_per_tbsp": 720,
   "sugar_g_per_tbsp": 0,
   "scoville": null,
   "heat_claim": null,
   "note": "McCormick Lemon & Pepper Seasoning, 28 oz food-service jar. Label serving is ¼ Tbsp (0.9 g); label sodium 180 mg, so 180 × 4 = 720 mg per tablespoon. A tablespoon is an arithmetic unit here, not a portion. pepper_rank is 0 on purpose: the blend's pepper is black pepper at position 2, not a chile, and the ranks record chile heat. Sugar is a listed ingredient at 5 but the label declares 0 g sugar in a serving that small. No heat word and no Scoville number on the jar.",
   "source": "s:fdc-mccormick-lemon-pepper",
   "source_url": "https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/food-details/2034704/nutrients",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "lat": 39.4963,
   "lon": -76.6543
  },
  {
   "id": "lemon-pepper-wet",
   "name": "Lemon pepper wet",
   "url": "sauce/lemon-pepper-wet/",
   "base": "citrus-pepper",
   "kind": "house",
   "maker": null,
   "town": "Atlanta",
   "state": "GA",
   "ingredients": [
    "lemon pepper seasoning",
    "butter or a lemon sauce or Buffalo sauce, depending on the shop"
   ],
   "pepper_rank": null,
   "vinegar_rank": null,
   "fat_rank": null,
   "tomato_rank": null,
   "sugar_rank": null,
   "mustard_rank": null,
   "soy_rank": null,
   "serving_tbsp": null,
   "sodium_mg_per_tbsp": null,
   "sugar_g_per_tbsp": null,
   "scoville": null,
   "heat_claim": null,
   "note": "kind is 'house' because no maker bottles this and no label exists to measure. The ingredient line is the range Wikipedia describes — a lemon sauce instead of the dry rub, or butter, or Buffalo sauce, with dry lemon pepper tossed over — not a single recipe. Every rank, every milligram and the Scoville figure are null because nothing is published; none of them is estimated here.",
   "source": "s:wp-lemon-pepper-wings",
   "source_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_pepper_wings",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "lat": 33.7545,
   "lon": -84.3898
  },
  {
   "id": "alabama-white-sauce",
   "name": "Alabama white sauce",
   "url": "sauce/alabama-white-sauce/",
   "base": "dairy",
   "kind": "bottle",
   "maker": "In-Between Sportwear, Inc. (Saw's)",
   "town": "Birmingham",
   "state": "AL",
   "ingredients": [
    "refined soybean oil",
    "water",
    "distilled vinegar",
    "salted egg yolk",
    "sugar",
    "apple cider vinegar",
    "spices",
    "eggs",
    "salt",
    "onion powder",
    "sodium benzoate",
    "potassium sorbate",
    "xanthan gum",
    "paprika",
    "garlic powder",
    "natural flavor",
    "EDTA disodium"
   ],
   "pepper_rank": 0,
   "vinegar_rank": 3,
   "fat_rank": 1,
   "tomato_rank": 0,
   "sugar_rank": 5,
   "mustard_rank": 0,
   "soy_rank": 0,
   "serving_tbsp": 2,
   "sodium_mg_per_tbsp": 150,
   "sugar_g_per_tbsp": 0.5,
   "scoville": null,
   "heat_claim": null,
   "note": "Saw's Alabama White Sauce, 12 fl oz. Label serving is 2 Tbsp (28 g); sodium 300 mg and sugars 1 g per serving, so 150 mg and 0.5 g per tablespoon. This is a Birmingham bottle, not Decatur's: Big Bob Gibson Bar-B-Q, which the invention is credited to, returns no record in FoodData Central, so its panel is not on this disk. pepper_rank is 0 because no chile is named on the label — only 'spices' at 7 and paprika at 14, and the cayenne and horseradish that descriptions of the sauce name do not appear on this one. The brand owner name is as the USDA record carries it. No Scoville number is published.",
   "source": "s:fdc-saws-alabama-white-sauce",
   "source_url": "https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/food-details/1955770/nutrients",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "lat": 33.5207,
   "lon": -86.8024
  },
  {
   "id": "blue-cheese-dressing",
   "name": "Blue cheese dressing",
   "url": "sauce/blue-cheese-dressing/",
   "base": "dairy",
   "kind": "bottle",
   "maker": "Ken's Foods, Inc.",
   "town": null,
   "state": null,
   "ingredients": [
    "soybean oil",
    "water",
    "distilled vinegar",
    "blue cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes)",
    "salt",
    "sugar",
    "modified corn starch",
    "natural flavor",
    "palm oil",
    "sodium and calcium caseinates",
    "propylene glycol alginate",
    "lactic acid",
    "potassium sorbate (preservative)",
    "xanthan gum",
    "garlic",
    "polysorbate 60",
    "onion",
    "yeast extract",
    "spice",
    "cellulose gum",
    "calcium disodium EDTA",
    "locust bean gum",
    "beta carotene (color)"
   ],
   "pepper_rank": 0,
   "vinegar_rank": 3,
   "fat_rank": 1,
   "tomato_rank": 0,
   "sugar_rank": 6,
   "mustard_rank": 0,
   "soy_rank": 0,
   "serving_tbsp": 2,
   "sodium_mg_per_tbsp": 145,
   "sugar_g_per_tbsp": 0.5,
   "scoville": null,
   "heat_claim": null,
   "note": "Ken's Steak House Chunky Blue Cheese Dressing, 16 fl oz. Label serving is 2 Tbsp (30 g); sodium 290 mg and sugars 1 g per serving, so 145 mg and 0.5 g per tablespoon. soy_rank is 0 — soybean oil at rank 1 is a fat and is counted under fat_rank. Palm oil at 9 is a second fat the single rank cannot show. No chile, no heat word, no Scoville number. The house dressings Buffalo bars make have no label.",
   "source": "s:fdc-kens-chunky-blue-cheese",
   "source_url": "https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/food-details/2673535/nutrients",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "lat": null,
   "lon": null
  },
  {
   "id": "ranch-dressing",
   "name": "Ranch dressing",
   "url": "sauce/ranch-dressing/",
   "base": "dairy",
   "kind": "bottle",
   "maker": "The HVR Company (Hidden Valley)",
   "town": null,
   "state": null,
   "ingredients": [
    "soybean oil",
    "water",
    "egg yolk",
    "sugar",
    "salt",
    "cultured nonfat buttermilk",
    "natural flavors (milk, soy)",
    "spices",
    "dried garlic",
    "dried onion",
    "vinegar",
    "phosphoric acid",
    "xanthan gum",
    "modified food starch",
    "artificial flavor",
    "disodium phosphate",
    "sorbic acid and calcium disodium EDTA as preservatives"
   ],
   "pepper_rank": 0,
   "vinegar_rank": 11,
   "fat_rank": 1,
   "tomato_rank": 0,
   "sugar_rank": 4,
   "mustard_rank": 0,
   "soy_rank": 0,
   "serving_tbsp": 2,
   "sodium_mg_per_tbsp": 120,
   "sugar_g_per_tbsp": 0.5,
   "scoville": null,
   "heat_claim": null,
   "note": "Hidden Valley Original Ranch Topping & Dip, 12 fl oz. Label serving is 2 Tbsp (30 mL); sodium 240 mg and sugars 1 g per serving, so 120 mg and 0.5 g per tablespoon. soy_rank is 0 — soybean oil at 1 is a fat, and the 'soy' in natural flavors at 7 is an allergen note, not soy sauce. The herbs the dressing is described by reach this label as 'spices' at 8. Brand owner name is as the USDA record carries it.",
   "source": "s:fdc-hidden-valley-ranch",
   "source_url": "https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/food-details/2085943/nutrients",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "lat": null,
   "lon": null
  },
  {
   "id": "memphis-rub",
   "name": "Memphis dry rub",
   "url": "sauce/memphis-rub/",
   "base": "dry-rub",
   "kind": "bottle",
   "maker": "Adams Extract Co.",
   "town": null,
   "state": null,
   "ingredients": [
    "brown sugar",
    "garlic",
    "sea salt",
    "paprika",
    "spices (including black pepper)",
    "chipotle pepper"
   ],
   "pepper_rank": 6,
   "vinegar_rank": 0,
   "fat_rank": 0,
   "tomato_rank": 0,
   "sugar_rank": 1,
   "mustard_rank": 0,
   "soy_rank": 0,
   "serving_tbsp": 0.0833,
   "sodium_mg_per_tbsp": 480,
   "sugar_g_per_tbsp": 12,
   "scoville": null,
   "heat_claim": null,
   "note": "Adams Reserve Memphis Barbecue Rub, 5.6 oz. Label serving is ¼ tsp (1 g) = 0.0833 tbsp; label sodium 40 mg and sugars 1 g, so 480 mg and 12 g per tablespoon by arithmetic — a comparison unit, not a portion. This is a shelf rub carrying the Memphis name, not a Memphis rib house's own mix: Charlie Vergos' Rendezvous seasoning and the other house shakers return no record in FoodData Central, so their panels are not on this disk. No heat word and no Scoville number on the jar.",
   "source": "s:fdc-adams-reserve-memphis-rub",
   "source_url": "https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/food-details/1912757/nutrients",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "lat": null,
   "lon": null
  },
  {
   "id": "old-bay",
   "name": "Old Bay Seasoning",
   "url": "sauce/old-bay/",
   "base": "dry-rub",
   "kind": "bottle",
   "maker": "McCormick & Company, Inc.",
   "town": "Hunt Valley",
   "state": "MD",
   "ingredients": [
    "celery salt (salt, celery seed)",
    "spices (including red pepper and black pepper)",
    "paprika"
   ],
   "pepper_rank": 2,
   "vinegar_rank": 0,
   "fat_rank": 0,
   "tomato_rank": 0,
   "sugar_rank": 0,
   "mustard_rank": 0,
   "soy_rank": 0,
   "serving_tbsp": 0.0417,
   "sodium_mg_per_tbsp": 1680,
   "sugar_g_per_tbsp": null,
   "scoville": null,
   "heat_claim": null,
   "note": "Label serving is ¼ tsp (0.6 g) = 0.0417 tbsp; label sodium 140 mg, so 140 × 12 = 1,680 mg per tablespoon. That is arithmetic for comparison, not a portion anybody serves. The USDA record carries the brand owner as Baltimore Spice Co and was last modified in 2017, before McCormick's packaging changes; the ingredient statement is the three-line short form, not the eighteen spices. sugar_g_per_tbsp is null because the panel declares no sugars line at all — not because it is zero. No Scoville number is published.",
   "source": "s:fdc-old-bay-seasoning",
   "source_url": "https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/food-details/404289/nutrients",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "lat": 39.4963,
   "lon": -76.6543
  },
  {
   "id": "garlic-parmesan-sauce",
   "name": "Garlic parmesan sauce",
   "url": "sauce/garlic-parmesan-sauce/",
   "base": "herb-garlic",
   "kind": "bottle",
   "maker": "P. K. Kinder Co., Inc.",
   "town": null,
   "state": null,
   "ingredients": [
    "soybean oil",
    "roasted garlic puree",
    "water",
    "sugar",
    "egg yolk",
    "parmesan cheese powder",
    "vinegar",
    "yellow mustard",
    "salt",
    "roasted garlic powder",
    "parsley",
    "lactic acid",
    "citric acid",
    "natural flavor",
    "garlic oil"
   ],
   "pepper_rank": 0,
   "vinegar_rank": 7,
   "fat_rank": 1,
   "tomato_rank": 0,
   "sugar_rank": 4,
   "mustard_rank": 8,
   "soy_rank": 0,
   "serving_tbsp": 1,
   "sodium_mg_per_tbsp": 120,
   "sugar_g_per_tbsp": 1,
   "scoville": null,
   "heat_claim": null,
   "note": "Kinder's Garlic Parmesan Wing Sauce & Dip, 12.7 oz. Label serving is 1 Tbsp (18 g), so the per-tablespoon figures are the label's own. soy_rank is 0: soybean oil at rank 1 is a fat, not soy sauce, and is counted under fat_rank. Garlic appears four times — puree at 2, powder at 10, whole at 15 as oil — which the single rank cannot show. The chain versions, including Wingstop's, carry no published label.",
   "source": "s:fdc-kinders-garlic-parmesan",
   "source_url": "https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/food-details/2652872/nutrients",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "lat": null,
   "lon": null
  },
  {
   "id": "hot-honey",
   "name": "Hot honey",
   "url": "sauce/hot-honey/",
   "base": "other",
   "kind": "bottle",
   "maker": "Mike's Hot Honey Inc.",
   "town": "Brooklyn",
   "state": "NY",
   "ingredients": [
    "honey",
    "chilies",
    "vinegar"
   ],
   "pepper_rank": 2,
   "vinegar_rank": 3,
   "fat_rank": 0,
   "tomato_rank": 0,
   "sugar_rank": 1,
   "mustard_rank": 0,
   "soy_rank": 0,
   "serving_tbsp": 1,
   "sodium_mg_per_tbsp": 0,
   "sugar_g_per_tbsp": 14,
   "scoville": null,
   "heat_claim": null,
   "note": "Mike's Hot Honey, 24 oz. Label serving is 1 Tbsp (21 g), so the per-tablespoon figures are the label's own. sugar_rank 1 is the honey itself — the sweetener and the base are the same ingredient here, which no other sauce in this set can say. The label names 'chilies' and no variety, so the chile cannot be identified and no Scoville figure follows. Sodium is a declared 0 mg, not a missing value. Town and state are the company's stated base and are recorded at low confidence.",
   "source": "s:fdc-mikes-hot-honey",
   "source_url": "https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/food-details/2511479/nutrients",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "lat": 40.6526,
   "lon": -73.9497
  },
  {
   "id": "jerk-marinade",
   "name": "Jerk marinade",
   "url": "sauce/jerk-marinade/",
   "base": "other",
   "kind": "bottle",
   "maker": "Georgia Peach Products, Inc. (Spur Tree Jamaican)",
   "town": null,
   "state": null,
   "ingredients": [
    "scallion",
    "Scotch bonnet pepper",
    "sea salt",
    "cane vinegar",
    "onion",
    "garlic",
    "pimento",
    "thyme",
    "cane sugar",
    "caramel color",
    "dextrose",
    "yeast extract",
    "sodium benzoate (preservative)"
   ],
   "pepper_rank": 2,
   "vinegar_rank": 4,
   "fat_rank": 0,
   "tomato_rank": 0,
   "sugar_rank": 9,
   "mustard_rank": 0,
   "soy_rank": 0,
   "serving_tbsp": 1,
   "sodium_mg_per_tbsp": 700,
   "sugar_g_per_tbsp": 1,
   "scoville": null,
   "heat_claim": null,
   "note": "Spur Tree Jamaican Jerk Seasoning, 35 oz. Label serving is 1 tbsp (18 g), so the per-tablespoon figures are the label's own. A wet seasoning, which is why it measures by the tablespoon where dry jerk rubs measure by the quarter-teaspoon — Grace Jerk Seasoning, FDC 2567137, is a dry powder at 140 mg sodium per ¼ tsp. 'Pimento' at rank 7 is allspice, the Jamaican name for it. No heat word and no Scoville number on the jar.",
   "source": "s:fdc-spur-tree-jerk-seasoning",
   "source_url": "https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/food-details/2617055/nutrients",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "lat": null,
   "lon": null
  },
  {
   "id": "mango-habanero",
   "name": "Mango habanero",
   "url": "sauce/mango-habanero/",
   "base": "other",
   "kind": "bottle",
   "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,
   "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.",
   "source": "s:fdc-sweet-baby-rays-mango-habanero",
   "source_url": "https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/food-details/2629740/nutrients",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "lat": null,
   "lon": null
  },
  {
   "id": "nashville-hot-oil",
   "name": "Nashville hot paste",
   "url": "sauce/nashville-hot-oil/",
   "base": "other",
   "kind": "house",
   "maker": null,
   "town": "Nashville",
   "state": "TN",
   "ingredients": [
    "cayenne pepper",
    "lard or frying oil",
    "sugar, garlic or additional hot sauce in some shops"
   ],
   "pepper_rank": null,
   "vinegar_rank": null,
   "fat_rank": null,
   "tomato_rank": null,
   "sugar_rank": null,
   "mustard_rank": null,
   "soy_rank": null,
   "serving_tbsp": null,
   "sodium_mg_per_tbsp": null,
   "sugar_g_per_tbsp": null,
   "scoville": null,
   "heat_claim": null,
   "note": "kind is 'house'. Recipes, cooking methods and preparation steps are described as closely guarded secrets proprietary to each restaurant, so there is no label and nothing to weigh. The ingredient line is what the cited description names, in no label order — the ranks are null rather than guessed. For a bottled approximation with a real panel, see Frank's RedHot Nashville Hot Wings Sauce, FDC 2621729: distilled vinegar, aged cayenne red peppers, sugar, canola oil, water, molasses, salt, spices; 1 tbsp serving, 340 mg sodium, 2 g sugar. That is a different object and is not recorded as this one.",
   "source": "s:wp-hot-chicken",
   "source_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_chicken",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "lat": 36.1623,
   "lon": -86.7743
  },
  {
   "id": "sweet-chili-sauce",
   "name": "Sweet chili sauce",
   "url": "sauce/sweet-chili-sauce/",
   "base": "other",
   "kind": "bottle",
   "maker": "PANOS Brands LLC (Ka-Me)",
   "town": null,
   "state": null,
   "ingredients": [
    "water",
    "cane sugar",
    "pickled chili (chili, salt, vinegar)",
    "pickled garlic (garlic salt, vinegar)",
    "modified corn starch",
    "salt",
    "white vinegar",
    "xanthan gum",
    "citric acid"
   ],
   "pepper_rank": 3,
   "vinegar_rank": 7,
   "fat_rank": 0,
   "tomato_rank": 0,
   "sugar_rank": 2,
   "mustard_rank": 0,
   "soy_rank": 0,
   "serving_tbsp": 1,
   "sodium_mg_per_tbsp": 220,
   "sugar_g_per_tbsp": 6,
   "scoville": null,
   "heat_claim": null,
   "note": "Ka-Me Sweet Chili Sauce, 7 fl oz. Label serving is 1 Tbsp (15 mL), so the per-tablespoon figures are the label's own. The USDA transcription runs 'SALT WHITE VINEGAR' with no comma; read here as two ingredients, salt at 6 and white vinegar at 7, with vinegar also inside the pickled chili and pickled garlic at 3 and 4. The chile is named only as 'chili', with no variety, so no Scoville figure follows.",
   "source": "s:fdc-ka-me-sweet-chili",
   "source_url": "https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/food-details/2523929/nutrients",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "lat": null,
   "lon": null
  },
  {
   "id": "yangnyeom-sauce",
   "name": "Yangnyeom sauce",
   "url": "sauce/yangnyeom-sauce/",
   "base": "other",
   "kind": "bottle",
   "maker": "American Roland Food LLC",
   "town": null,
   "state": null,
   "ingredients": [
    "water",
    "red pepper paste",
    "fructooligosaccharides",
    "sugar",
    "soy sauce",
    "red pepper",
    "seasoning mix",
    "modified corn starch",
    "garlic",
    "apple juice concentrate",
    "cajun spice",
    "rice wine",
    "malt vinegar",
    "ginger",
    "paprika oleoresin",
    "thiamine",
    "citric acid"
   ],
   "pepper_rank": 2,
   "vinegar_rank": 13,
   "fat_rank": 0,
   "tomato_rank": 0,
   "sugar_rank": 4,
   "mustard_rank": 0,
   "soy_rank": 5,
   "serving_tbsp": 2,
   "sodium_mg_per_tbsp": 234.5,
   "sugar_g_per_tbsp": 3.5,
   "scoville": null,
   "heat_claim": "Spicy",
   "note": "Roland Spicy Gochujang Korean BBQ Sauce, 13.7 oz. Label serving is 2 Tbsp (34 g); sodium 469 mg and sugars 7 g per serving, so 234.5 mg and 3.5 g per tablespoon. 'Red pepper paste' at rank 2 is gochujang. heat_claim is the maker's own front-label word. A Korean shop's own yangnyeom is mixed in the kitchen and carries no label, so this is a shelf bottle standing in for it, not the shop sauce. Ken's Foods sells a KOGI Sticky Spicy Wing Sauce with Gochujang whose USDA record omits sodium entirely, which is why it is not used here. No Scoville number is published.",
   "source": "s:fdc-roland-gochujang-korean-bbq",
   "source_url": "https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/food-details/1958977/nutrients",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "lat": null,
   "lon": null
  },
  {
   "id": "soy-garlic-sauce",
   "name": "Soy garlic sauce",
   "url": "sauce/soy-garlic-sauce/",
   "base": "soy-sweet",
   "kind": "bottle",
   "maker": "Korean Delights LLC (We Love You)",
   "town": null,
   "state": null,
   "ingredients": [
    "soy sauce (water, soybeans, wheat, salt)",
    "sugar",
    "water",
    "granulated garlic",
    "apple juice concentrate",
    "white distilled vinegar",
    "corn starch",
    "granulated onion",
    "black pepper",
    "ground ginger"
   ],
   "pepper_rank": 0,
   "vinegar_rank": 6,
   "fat_rank": 0,
   "tomato_rank": 0,
   "sugar_rank": 2,
   "mustard_rank": 0,
   "soy_rank": 1,
   "serving_tbsp": 1,
   "sodium_mg_per_tbsp": 430,
   "sugar_g_per_tbsp": 6,
   "scoville": null,
   "heat_claim": null,
   "note": "We Love You Soy Garlic Korean Chicken Wing Sauce & Glaze, 15 oz. Label serving is 1 tbsp (18 g), so the per-tablespoon figures are the label's own. pepper_rank is 0: black pepper at rank 9 is not a chile. Bonchon's own soy garlic is made in company plants in South Korea and is not sold in a labelled retail bottle, so it returns no USDA record and its panel is not on this disk.",
   "source": "s:fdc-we-love-you-soy-garlic",
   "source_url": "https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/food-details/2511275/nutrients",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "lat": null,
   "lon": null
  },
  {
   "id": "teriyaki-sauce",
   "name": "Teriyaki sauce",
   "url": "sauce/teriyaki-sauce/",
   "base": "soy-sweet",
   "kind": "bottle",
   "maker": "Kikkoman Sales USA, Inc.",
   "town": null,
   "state": null,
   "ingredients": [
    "naturally brewed soy sauce (water, wheat, soybeans, salt)",
    "wine",
    "high fructose corn syrup",
    "water",
    "vinegar",
    "salt",
    "spices",
    "onion powder",
    "succinic acid",
    "garlic powder",
    "sodium benzoate"
   ],
   "pepper_rank": 0,
   "vinegar_rank": 5,
   "fat_rank": 0,
   "tomato_rank": 0,
   "sugar_rank": 3,
   "mustard_rank": 0,
   "soy_rank": 1,
   "serving_tbsp": 1,
   "sodium_mg_per_tbsp": 610,
   "sugar_g_per_tbsp": 2,
   "scoville": null,
   "heat_claim": null,
   "note": "Kikkoman Teriyaki Marinade & Sauce. Label serving is 1 Tbsp (15 mL), so the per-tablespoon figures are the label's own. The USDA transcription runs 'WINE HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP' with no comma; read here as two ingredients, wine at 2 and high fructose corn syrup at 3 — the ranks after that follow from the reading and would shift by one if the transcription is wrong. No mirin on the label: the corn syrup does the sweetening the mirin does in a Japanese tare. No chile, no heat word, no Scoville number.",
   "source": "s:fdc-kikkoman-teriyaki",
   "source_url": "https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/food-details/2085929/nutrients",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "lat": null,
   "lon": null
  },
  {
   "id": "honey-bbq-sauce",
   "name": "Honey barbecue sauce",
   "url": "sauce/honey-bbq-sauce/",
   "base": "sweet-tomato",
   "kind": "bottle",
   "maker": "Sweet Baby Ray's Inc.",
   "town": null,
   "state": null,
   "ingredients": [
    "high fructose corn syrup",
    "distilled vinegar",
    "tomato paste",
    "honey",
    "modified food starch",
    "salt",
    "natural flavor",
    "caramel color",
    "pineapple juice concentrate",
    "spices",
    "sodium benzoate",
    "natural smoke flavor",
    "molasses",
    "garlic",
    "corn syrup",
    "sugar",
    "tamarind"
   ],
   "pepper_rank": 0,
   "vinegar_rank": 2,
   "fat_rank": 0,
   "tomato_rank": 3,
   "sugar_rank": 1,
   "mustard_rank": 0,
   "soy_rank": 0,
   "serving_tbsp": 2,
   "sodium_mg_per_tbsp": 150,
   "sugar_g_per_tbsp": 7.5,
   "scoville": null,
   "heat_claim": null,
   "note": "Sweet Baby Ray's Honey Barbecue Sauce, 28 oz. Label serving is 2 Tbsp (37 g); sodium 300 mg and sugars 15 g per serving, so 150 mg and 7.5 g per tablespoon. sugar_rank 1 is high fructose corn syrup; the honey the sauce is named for sits at 4, and corn syrup and sugar appear again at 15 and 16. pepper_rank is 0 — no chile is named anywhere on the label. No heat word, no Scoville number.",
   "source": "s:fdc-sweet-baby-rays-honey-bbq",
   "source_url": "https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/food-details/2017251/nutrients",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "lat": null,
   "lon": null
  },
  {
   "id": "mild-sauce",
   "name": "Mild sauce",
   "url": "sauce/mild-sauce/",
   "base": "sweet-tomato",
   "kind": "bottle",
   "maker": "Southern Signature, Inc.",
   "town": null,
   "state": null,
   "ingredients": [
    "tomato puree",
    "sugar",
    "vinegar",
    "corn syrup solids",
    "modified food starch",
    "salt",
    "caramel color",
    "hydrolyzed soy and wheat proteins",
    "spices",
    "lemon juice powder",
    "sodium benzoate",
    "onion powder",
    "garlic powder",
    "caramel color",
    "artificial color"
   ],
   "pepper_rank": 0,
   "vinegar_rank": 3,
   "fat_rank": 0,
   "tomato_rank": 1,
   "sugar_rank": 2,
   "mustard_rank": 0,
   "soy_rank": 0,
   "serving_tbsp": 2,
   "sodium_mg_per_tbsp": 140,
   "sugar_g_per_tbsp": 5.5,
   "scoville": null,
   "heat_claim": "Mild",
   "note": "Aisha's Mild Sauce, 18 oz. Label serving is 2 Tbsp (31 g); sodium 280 mg and sugars 11 g per serving, so 140 mg and 5.5 g per tablespoon. soy_rank is 0 because the label lists hydrolyzed soy and wheat proteins, which is not soy sauce. pepper_rank is 0: no chile or pepper sauce is named, only 'spices'. heat_claim is the product's own front-label word, and on this sauce the word names the sauce rather than its heat. The maker's town is not stated on the USDA record and is not recorded here. The shacks' house sauces have no published label.",
   "source": "s:fdc-aishas-mild-sauce",
   "source_url": "https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/food-details/2422784/nutrients",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "lat": null,
   "lon": null
  },
  {
   "id": "mumbo-sauce",
   "name": "Mumbo sauce",
   "url": "sauce/mumbo-sauce/",
   "base": "sweet-tomato",
   "kind": "bottle",
   "maker": "Capital City, LLC",
   "town": "Washington",
   "state": "DC",
   "ingredients": [
    "tomato ketchup",
    "sugar",
    "water",
    "soy sauce",
    "vinegar",
    "cayenne pepper hot sauce",
    "paprika"
   ],
   "pepper_rank": 6,
   "vinegar_rank": 5,
   "fat_rank": 0,
   "tomato_rank": 1,
   "sugar_rank": 2,
   "mustard_rank": 0,
   "soy_rank": 4,
   "serving_tbsp": 2,
   "sodium_mg_per_tbsp": 80,
   "sugar_g_per_tbsp": 5,
   "scoville": null,
   "heat_claim": "Mild",
   "note": "Capital City Mild Mambo Sauce, 12 fl oz. Label serving is 2 Tbsp (21 g); sodium 160 mg and sugars 10 g per serving, so 80 mg and 5 g per tablespoon. Ranks count the top-level list only — the ketchup carries its own sugar and vinegar inside the parenthesis, which the tomato_rank of 1 does not show. heat_claim is the maker's own front-label word. The Sweet Hot bottle shows the same sodium and sugar and adds habanero pepper extract. Nobody publishes a Scoville figure; the carryout versions have no label to read at all.",
   "source": "s:fdc-capital-city-mild-mambo",
   "source_url": "https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/food-details/2147935/nutrients",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "lat": 38.8951,
   "lon": -77.0364
  },
  {
   "id": "crystal-hot-sauce",
   "name": "Crystal Hot Sauce",
   "url": "sauce/crystal-hot-sauce/",
   "base": "vinegar-pepper",
   "kind": "bottle",
   "maker": "Baumer Foods, Inc.",
   "town": "Reserve",
   "state": "LA",
   "ingredients": [
    "aged red cayenne peppers",
    "distilled vinegar",
    "salt"
   ],
   "pepper_rank": 1,
   "vinegar_rank": 2,
   "fat_rank": 0,
   "tomato_rank": 0,
   "sugar_rank": 0,
   "mustard_rank": 0,
   "soy_rank": 0,
   "serving_tbsp": 0.333,
   "sodium_mg_per_tbsp": 405,
   "sugar_g_per_tbsp": 0,
   "scoville": null,
   "heat_claim": null,
   "note": "Measured off the 6 fl oz bottle. Label serving is 1 tsp (5 mL) = 0.333 tbsp; label sodium is 135 mg, so 135 × 3 = 405 mg per tablespoon. The 64 fl oz food-service jug carries a fourth ingredient, xanthan gum, and its USDA record omits sodium, so the small bottle is used here. No Scoville number is published by the maker or by a lab; Wikipedia's 'medium heat' is a description, not a measurement, and is not recorded as one. Town is the production plant; the head office is in Metairie.",
   "source": "s:fdc-crystal-hot-sauce",
   "source_url": "https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/food-details/2300103/nutrients",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "lat": 30.0824,
   "lon": -90.5585
  },
  {
   "id": "franks-redhot",
   "name": "Frank's RedHot",
   "url": "sauce/franks-redhot/",
   "base": "vinegar-pepper",
   "kind": "bottle",
   "maker": "McCormick & Company, Inc.",
   "town": "Springfield",
   "state": "MO",
   "ingredients": [
    "aged cayenne red peppers",
    "distilled vinegar",
    "water",
    "salt",
    "garlic powder"
   ],
   "pepper_rank": 1,
   "vinegar_rank": 2,
   "fat_rank": 0,
   "tomato_rank": 0,
   "sugar_rank": 0,
   "mustard_rank": 0,
   "soy_rank": 0,
   "serving_tbsp": 0.333,
   "sodium_mg_per_tbsp": 570,
   "sugar_g_per_tbsp": 0,
   "scoville": 450,
   "heat_claim": null,
   "note": "Label serving is 1 tsp (5 mL) = 0.333 tbsp; label sodium is 190 mg, so 190 × 3 = 570 mg per tablespoon. Ingredient order is the label's. The maker's own product page prints the same statement with 'Distilled Vinegar' spelled out. The panel figures come from FoodData Central; the Scoville figure is the maker's, off its own product page (s:web-franks-redhot-original-page), and 450 SHU is published for the Original blend and is the rare case where a wing-sauce maker states a number; heat_claim is null because the bottle prints no heat word — 'Original' names the variety, not a heat level.",
   "source": "s:fdc-franks-redhot-original",
   "source_url": "https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/food-details/2565317/nutrients",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "lat": 37.2082,
   "lon": -93.2923
  }
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}