Choosing healthier table saucesSweet dipping sauce
| Sweet dipping sauces, recommended serving 30ml | ||
|---|---|---|
| Product | Sugar (g/30ml) | Salt (g/30ml) |
|
Blue Dragon Sweet Chilli Dipping Sauce 190ml £0.68 |
16.4 | 1.25 |
|
Encona Caribbean Thai Sweet Chilli Dip 142ml £0.96 |
15.3 (estimated) | Not given |
|
Levi Roots Fiery Guava Dipping Sauce 295g £1.49 |
8.49 | 0.2 |
Sweet chilli and other sweet dipping sauces are increasingly popular in the UK.
These have about 50% sugar
Sugar is listed as the main ingredient in the brands we selected.
Blue Dragon recommends a 30ml serving, which means consuming 16.4g sugar - more than three teaspoons of sugar, which is around 15% of your guideline daily allowance.
Salt content
It also has a lot of salt, with this portion containing 20% of your recommended daily allowance for salt.
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