Cholula Hot Sauce

Cholula Hot Sauce (Original) is one of the few truly Mexican hot sauces to achieve true cult status in the US. Famous for the wooden cap on its bottles, Cholula Hot Sauce offers a light flavor along with a mild but long-lasting heat. The makers of Cholula Hot Sauce (Original) claim that it is made from a recipe that is more than 100 years old and which has not been changed over the years.

Ingredients List for Cholula Hot Sauce
Water
Peppers (Arbol and pequin)
Salt
Vinegar
Spices
Xanthan gum The Peppers in Cholula Hot Sauce
Most other hot sauces revolve around one pepper; for example, Tabasco Original Red Sauce features the Tabasco pepper. From the list of ingredients, you can see that Cholula has two: the Arbol chile and the piquin chile.
These peppers are believed to have descended from the cayenne pepper and their capsaicin content enables them to deliver between 50,000 and 65,000 Scoville Heat Units (SHUs). This is quite high in comparison to the other peppers typically used to make American hot sauces. Consider the fact that the Tabasco pepper only offers 30,000 to 50,000 SHUs and the relatively mild jalapenos used for Sriracha are able to bring only 2,500 to 8,000 SHUs to the table. The flavor of the Arbol chile can be described as being fresh and herbaceous flavor with a mild nutty note to go with its