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Choosing healthier table saucesBrown sauce

Brown sauce, recommended serving 20g
Product Sugar (g/20g) Salt (g/20g)
HP Brown Sauce 255g £0.58 4.5 0.5
Branston Brown Sauce 470g £1.29 5.7 0.4
Daddies Favourite Brown Sauce 680g £1.51 3.2 0.5
Tiptree Brown Sauce 310g £1.75 7.8 0.3

Brown sauce is a firm favourite with adults - particularly on their English breakfasts and bacon sandwiches.

brown sauce

These have exotic ingredients

But its ingredients are far more exotic than you may have thought. 

The original recipe contained dates and tamarind.

Premium ingredients

As with our tomato sauce selection, the brown sauce from premium brand Tiptree is the sweetest, with more than a 30% sugar. 

Daddies and HP sauces are the highest in salt of our selection, containing 8% of an adult’s maximum recommended daily intake.

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