Sweet Baby Ray's ingredients: what's banned overseas?
Parent company: Southeastern Mills / B&G Foods
About Sweet Baby Ray's
Sweet Baby Ray's is the best-selling BBQ sauce brand in the US, produced under license by B&G Foods. It is sold at grocery chains, mass retailers, and club stores nationwide. The brand has dominated the BBQ sauce category since the 1980s and offers original, honey, hickory, and various other flavor varieties.
Common concerns with Sweet Baby Ray's products
Sweet Baby Ray's original BBQ sauce lists high-fructose corn syrup as the very first ingredient — making it the dominant component by weight. It also contains modified corn starch, caramel color (a 4-MEI source), sodium benzoate as a preservative, corn syrup (a second sugar), and pineapple juice concentrate. The combination of HFCS as the primary ingredient and sodium benzoate as a preservative are the most significant additive flags in this product.
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