VerdictConsider avoiding

Hot Chili Sauce

Ingredients0Coverage0/0 resolvedDriversNo priority drivers flagged

Decision lens

Focused on food use. Bias toward food-use coverage and published ingestible context.

Food health

Food healthCritical

Contains additive of concern

Sunset yellow FCFSouthampton Six colour; hyperactivity/attention concern in children.
Ponceau 4RSouthampton Six colour; hyperactivity/attention concern in children. Banned in the US.
Sodium benzoatePreservative; can form trace benzene (a carcinogen) when combined with ascorbic acid; implicated in child hyperactivity studies.
Monosodium glutamate (MSG)Flavour enhancer; self-reported intolerance ('MSG symptom complex'); EFSA flagged exposure above the group ADI.
AspartameSweetener; classified as possibly carcinogenic, though the evidence is contested and intake-dependent.
Acesulfame KSweetener; broadly assessed safe but some consumer-avoidance and limited animal-study questions.