Best Barbecue Sauce by PureScore

Barbecue sauce is a tomato base plus a sweetener, and that sweetener changes the score. This ranking uses the published PureScore already on each product page. The live composite is ingredient safety (40%), formulation quality (30%), contaminant risk (20%), and label transparency (10%). Labels that are only partly matched stay off the list.

Ranked barbecue sauce

Rank	Product	Brand	PureScore	Label begins	Buy
1	Barbecue sauce, barbecue	365 Everyday Value	86	Organic tomato paste, water, organic apple cider vinegar, organic brown sugar, organic distilled white vinegar	Buy
2	Motherlode provisions, barbecue sauce, sweet & smoky	Motherlode Provisions	86	Water, cane sugar, tomato paste, apple cider vinegar, spices blend (spices [including mustard], sea salt, paprika	Buy
3	Gold's, Barbecue Sauce	Gold Pure Food Products Co. Inc.	84	Tomato puree, sugar molasses, honey, spices, salt, passover vinegar, onion powder, garlic powder	Buy
4	Mesquite Smoke Barbecue Sauce	Western Family	45	TOMATO PUREE (WATER, TOMATO PASTE), HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, WATER, DISTILLED VINEGAR, SALT, MOLASSES	Buy

365 Everyday Value Barbecue sauce, barbecue at 86 is Excellent. Its label begins: Organic tomato paste, water, organic apple cider vinegar, organic brown sugar, organic distilled white vinegar. Western Family Mesquite Smoke Barbecue Sauce at 45 is Fair. Its label begins: TOMATO PUREE (WATER, TOMATO PASTE), HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, WATER, DISTILLED VINEGAR, SALT, MOLASSES.

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