Brand
Open Pit
Made by
Conagra Brands
Aisle
Condiments, dressings and sauces
Kind
barbecue sauce
Barcode
00054100977656

Open Pit

Open Pit Blue Label Original Barbecue Sauce

Thin, vinegar-forward barbecue sauce in the blue-label bottle, unusual in this aisle for being coloured with three added dyes.

Label check

Flagged ingredients4

Fails 2 of 5 standards. Read from the ingredient list below; what each check counts.

What was flagged, and the words it was read from

IngredientCheckOn the label as
Red 40Synthetic dyesRED 40
Yellow 5Synthetic dyesYELLOW 5
Blue 1Synthetic dyesBLUE 1
High fructose corn syrupCorn syrupHIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP

Ingredients as listed

Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Distilled Vinegar, Salt, Modified Corn Starch, Contains Less Than 2% Of: Tomato Paste, Mustard Flour, Onion Powder, Hydrolyzed Corn Protein, Dehydrated Garlic, Hydrolyzed Soy Protein, Caramel Color, Natural and Artificial Flavor, Color Added (Red 40, Yellow 5, Blue 1). CONTAINS: SOY.

Source: the label filed with USDA’s branded food database (record 2695279). The maker’s page for it is here. Recipes change, and the pack you buy may print a newer list.

Same aisle, fewer flags

More barbecue sauce first, then the rest of the condiments, dressings and sauces aisle. Each fails fewer than 2 of the checks; fewest flags first.