Built on soybean oil, a seed oil. Also has added sugar.
Grade
CFull check
−23 points
Seed-oil base. Soybean oil.
Ingredients, in label order
Explain every ingredient
- Non-GMO soybean oil — Seed-oil base. Soybean oil is the base oil. It's a seed oil, your biggest red flag.
- soy sauce (water, soybeans, wheat, salt) — Real-food add-in. Real-food ingredient.
- brown sugar — Watch. Added sugar.
- garlic — Real-food add-in. Onion family (allium): part of the crunch and flavor.
- dried chili pepper — Core. Core chili ingredient.
- black vinegar (water, rice, wheat, sorghum, corn, buckwheat, salt, sugar) — Watch. Added sugar.
- sesame oil — Watch. Sesame oil in a flavoring amount next to another base oil. Noted, not penalized.
- mushroom powder — Real-food add-in. Real-food ingredient.
- spices — Real-food add-in. Real-food ingredient.
Watch-outs
- Some retailer pages still list an older recipe and call it sugar-free and gluten-free. The current label has brown sugar and wheat.
Score breakdown
| Starting score | 100 |
| Seed-oil base (soybean oil) | −20 |
| Added sugar | −3 |
| Score | 77 → C |
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Where to buy
| Store | Size | Price | Per oz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walmart | 6 oz | $9.98 | $1.66/oz |
| Sprouts | 6 oz | $11.99 | $2.00/oz |
Shopper notes
- Contains wheat, so not gluten-free. The Sprouts tag correctly doesn't say GF.
- $9.98 at Walmart was marked down from $13.98.