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Kansas City Style Original Barbecue Sauce

by Essential Everyday

At a glance

A Kansas City style BBQ sauce.

Tastes

Probably sweet and smoky, built on tomato.

Heat
Not stated on the label
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Made with

Tomato puree, High fructose corn syrup, Molasses, Vinegar… all ingredients

From the ingredient label on file with USDA. How we read it

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Ingredients

12, in label order
  1. 1
    Tomato puree
    • Water
    • Tomato paste
  2. 2
    High fructose corn syrup
  3. 3
    Molasses
  4. 4
    Vinegar
  5. 5
    Modified food starch
  6. 6
    Each of the following: salt
  7. 7
    Natural hickory smoke flavor
  8. 8
    Spices
  9. 9
    Caramel color
  10. 10
    Sodium benzoate (preservative)
  11. 11
    Dried onion
  12. 12
    Dried garlic
Exact label text

TOMATO PUREE (WATER, TOMATO PASTE), HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, MOLASSES, VINEGAR, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF EACH OF THE FOLLOWING: SALT, NATURAL HICKORY SMOKE FLAVOR, SPICES, CARAMEL COLOR, SODIUM BENZOATE (PRESERVATIVE), DRIED ONION, DRIED GARLIC.

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Where this comes from

The USDA label record, plus the photo from Open Food Facts.

How we read the flavor3 tags
  • Tomato baseTomato Puree is listed 1st
  • SweetHigh Fructose Corn Syrup is listed 2nd
  • SmokyContains natural hickory smoke flavor

Words on the label: “Original”.

We read the ingredient order and wording. No tasting, no scores, and we never guess heat.

Product facts
Brand
Essential Everyday
Owner, as reported
Supervalu, Inc.
Type
BBQ sauce
Style
Kansas City style
Label on record
2017-07-14
Sold in
USA
Sizes & barcodes1 size
SizeBarcodeCheck
510 g
US
041303003954Valid
Sources1 record

USDA FoodData Central – Branded Foods · record 2102265 · retrieved 2026-10-11

FactExtraction confidence
name80%
category70%
category tags70%
style80%
ingredients text90%

Data from Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org), available under the Open Database License. Product on Open Food Facts. Photos: Open Food Facts contributors, CC BY-SA 3.0, credited on each photo.

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central. fdc.nal.usda.gov (CC0-1.0).

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