Thesis statement: Many companies have developed great hot sauces, of this I have no doubt. But, the hot sauce I am presenting has the slight difference in its ingredients that will bring that fiery zest to your taste buds. Tabasco sauce is a brand of hot sauce made of tabasco peppers, vinegar and a little salt, …show more content…
You can use any type of peppers you like. For my hot sauce, I used all natural ingredients, which are, the traditional Puerto Rican chili pepper, better known as the “Gentleman pepper” (ají caballero), and I added the Carolina Reaper pepper, the Trinidad Scorpion pepper and the Naga Viper pepper because they were ranked the hottest chili peppers in the world and I wanted my hot sauce to have that extreme explosive fiery taste without losing the traditional artisanal flavor.
The use of chili peppers is what makes a sauce a hot sauce. Regardless of how hot or not a sauce is, it has to be made from chili peppers. There is a significant variation in the types of ingredients used to make hot sauce and how hot is hot enough. Tabasco sauce, as I mentioned before, only has tabasco peppers in its ingredients, aside from having other chemicals that can cause future health problems. It lacks our essential nutrients, no vitamins nor minerals and has negligible fat and calories. One potential drawback to Tabasco is that one teaspoon contains around 35 milligrams of sodium, which is about 2 percent of the daily limit recommended by the American Heart