Hot Bbq Sauce
by Buster's
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0692082100107 · Buster's · Condiments. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Hot Bbq Sauce by Buster's scores 5/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 71 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 5 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 71-component record, beginning with Ketchup, Organic Tomato Concentrate From Red Ripe Organic Tomatoes, Distilled Vinegar. That density can include amounts and label fragments, so verify the physical label before relying on ingredient order or completeness. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.
- 5/100
- Avoid safety score
- 5
- Many flagged · of 71 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- D
- Nutri-Score nutrition grade
Computed directly from OpenFoodFacts ingredient data cross-referenced with FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings. See our methodology for the scoring formula.
Composite profile score
One verdict from three independent sources
15/100
Grade F
Ingredient Safety
5/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
D
Nutri-Score front-of-pack nutrition grade
Weighted 50% ingredient safety / 25% processing level / 25% nutrition grade. A dimension with no data for this product (common: source coverage is partial) is dropped and its weight redistributes across the remaining dimensions, so missing data never silently lowers the score. See the full benchmark table.
82100107 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Hot Bbq Sauce label screening desk
18 of 71 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Brominated Vegetable Oil). Source sheet 82100107 · Open Food Facts · July 2026. The screening score and flag counts are in the verdict band above. This desk is the provenance stamp, not a second scorecard. Methodology · Read with nearest score peer: Cocoa Peanut Butter Cereal · Nearest score peer is Cocoa Peanut Butter Cereal at the same screening score.
Screening model notes
How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record
The composite for this product falls in the lowest of the four bands. That is where labels land when registry-rated components drive the greater part of the deduction from the index. The band name is drawn from the framework's own scale and is distinct from the ratings the registries themselves assign to individual substances, which are shown per component below. A single heavily rated component and several lightly rated ones can produce the same band, so the component table is the more precise reading of the two.
This label falls in the fourth Nutri-Score band. The model arrives there when its penalty terms — energy density, sugars, saturated fat, sodium — carry more weight in the calculation than the fibre, protein and produce content it credits. The band covers a wide span of the points scale, so position within it is not visible from the letter alone. The grade reflects the declared nutrition panel and is unrelated to the additive ratings listed below, which come from different bodies applying different criteria.
The declared list is among the longer ones in this catalogue. A component set this wide means the screen returns many individual ratings, and the composite accumulates a large number of small contributions instead of turning on a handful of entries. At this length the per-component table below is substantially more informative than the single figure, because the figure compresses a great deal of variation into one number.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 31,268 products we've scored in the Condiments category, the average safety score is 98.3/100. Hot Bbq Sauce scores 93.3 points below that category average (5/100 vs. 98.3/100), so it is a comparatively weaker pick for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.
Ingredient-list length vs other Condiments products
Hot Bbq Sauce lists 71 ingredients on its label
71 100th percentile a longer ingredient list than every other product we track
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more products. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 186 products (1%)
- 2–4
- 1,031 products (4%)
- 4–6
- 1,392 products (5%)
- 6–8
- 2,093 products (8%)
- 8–10
- 2,811 products (10%)
- 10–12
- 3,070 products (11%)
- 12–14
- 2,818 products (10%)
- 14–16
- 2,724 products (10%)
- 16–18
- 2,451 products (9%)
- 18–20
- 2,045 products (8%)
- 20–22
- 1,563 products (6%)
- 22–24
- 1,244 products (5%)
- 24–26
- 934 products (3%)
- 26–28
- 694 products (3%)
- 28–30
- 551 products (2%)
- 30–32
- 420 products (2%)
- 32–34
- 246 products (1%)
- 34–36
- 196 products (1%)
- 36–38
- 135 products (0%)
- 38–40
- 134 products (0%)
- 40 and above
- 346 products (1%)
Source Open Food Facts, product label ingredient lists · July 2026
Ingredient-list length is a descriptive property of the label, not a safety rating. A longer list is not automatically worse and a shorter one is not automatically better; the count is shown so the label can be placed against a comparable population. The comparison here runs against the 27,084 Condiments products we publish with a parsed label, not against the whole catalogue, because list length varies far more between categories than within one.
Ingredient Safety Analysis
How the 5/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (5 flagged of 71 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Ketchup (tomato concentrate from red ripe tomatoes, distilled vinegar, high fructose corn syrup, corn starch, salt, spice, onion powder, natural flavoring), water, worcestershire sauce (distilled vinegar, molasses, corn syrup, water, salt, caramel color, sugar, spices, anchovies, natural flavor [contains soy], tamarind), red wine vinegar, brown sugar (sugar, invert sugar, cane molasses), soy sauce (distilled water, hydrolyzed soy protein, salt, corn syrup, caramel color, 0.1 of 1% benzoate of soda), orange flavored syrup (high fructose corn syrup, water, citric acid, potassium benzoate [to protect taste], natural flavors, modified food starch, glycerol, ester of wood rosin, yellow 6, brominated vegetable oil, red 40, dimethylpolysiloxane), onion, lemon juice (filtered water, lemon juice concentrate, preserved with sodium benzoate and sodium bisulfite), natural and artificial hickory smoke flavor, bacon (pork, water, salt, sodium phosphate, sugar, spices, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite), garlic powder,paprika, mustard powder, chili power, seasoned beef brisket (beef brisket, black pepper, garlic salt, season supreme [salt, spices, celery seed, paprika, salt, cajun seasoning [salt, garlic, paprika, pepper, onion, spices, red pepper, silicon dioxide {an anti-caking agent}], jen mai seasoning [dextrose, salt, natural flavors, disodium inosinate]), red pepper flakes, black pepper, cayenne pepper, instant coffee crystals.
Categories
Lower-score cross-brand comparables for Hot Bbq Sauce
Neighbours outside Buster's in the same lower screening band as Hot Bbq Sauce (5/100). No other Buster's products are linked from this barcode; these peers compare across brands only.
Nearest screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (5 flagged of 71 on 0692082100107).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (71 on 0692082100107).
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Brominated Vegetable Oil is the first flagged ingredient selected from Hot Bbq Sauce's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 71-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Brominated Vegetable Oil. Open Brominated Vegetable Oil
- Compare Hot Bbq Sauce's 5 flagged ingredients with a product from the same score neighbourhood. Compare labels
- Check how caution flags contribute to the derived screening score before drawing a dietary conclusion. Read the method
This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.
Barcode 0692082100107: product data from Open Food Facts (July 2026). Screening from FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine where attached. Figures are computed from those sources, not editor-typed. Methodology. Reference only, not dietary or medical advice.