The serrano pepper is a moderately hot pepper popular in Mexican cuisine. It is similar in shape to the jalapeño, but is narrower and shorter. And like jalapeños, along with their heat, serrano peppers provide a number of health benefits. Among those benefits are certain qualities like:
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Valentina Hot Sauce Ingredients: What Makes It Tick?
Valentina Salsa Picante is available in both an Original and an Extra Hot version. It is made in Guadalajara by Salsa Tamazula. The company started out by making Tamazula Hot Sauce prior to bringing Valentina Hot Sauce to market in 1954. In the years since …
Texas Pete Hot Sauce Ingredients: What Makes It Tick?
Texas Pete Original Hot Sauce is not actually from Texas. This hot sauce is made by TW Garner Food company in Winston-Salem North Carolina and has been in production since 1929. It was introduced by Sam Garner, who operated the Dixie Pig barbecue stand. According …
Banana Pepper Nutrition: How Healthy Are They?
The banana pepper is a variety of Capsicum annuum known for their mild flavor and slight tang that works perfectly pickled. The typical banana pepper has a Scoville rating of between 0 and 500 Scoville heat units, which makes it very mild. Think of it as …
Crystal Hot Sauce Ingredients: What Makes It Tick?
Baumer Foods has been making Crystal Hot Sauce since 1923 and over the years since it has been on the market, it has become a Louisiana icon. In fact, it is the most popular Louisiana hot sauce within Louisiana; you will find a bottle on …
Louisiana Hot Sauce Ingredients: What Makes This Hot Sauce Tick?
The makers of Louisiana Hot Sauce market it as one of the first Cajun food products to become commercially available. The sauce was first made and sold in 1928 by Bruce Foods, about five years after Baumer Foods (another Louisiana-based company) began producing Crystal Hot …
Cholula Ingredients: What Makes This Hot Sauce Tick?
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 …
Habanero Nutrition: How Healthy Are They?
Habaneros are small Mexican chilies that are best known for their extra-hot spiciness. They are most often used in salsas and as a source of heat for hot sauces. Along with their heat, the flavor profile of these peppers includes fruitiness and mild floral notes. …
Tapatio Ingredients: What Makes This Hot Sauce Tick?
A staple of Mexican restaurants in the US, Tapatio Hot Sauce has been around since 1971. Tapatio’s reputation has grown over the years to the point where it is now considered one of the great American hot sauces alongside Tabasco Original Red Sauce and Frank’s RedHot Original Cayenne Pepper Sauce. Its relatively mild heat along with its piquant flavor makes it a tasty addition to food, both for chile pepper novices and for long-time lovers of spicy food.
Frank’s RedHot Ingredients: What’s In This Popular Hot Sauce?
Frank’s RedHot has been making hot sauce since 1964. While the company now has a sizable line that includes a variety of hot sauces, the best-known one is still their Original Cayenne Pepper Sauce. Not only is it a versatile flavoring for a vast range …
