Jamaican Choice, Calypso Hot Sauce
Jamaican Choice, Calypso Hot Sauce by Finest Food Distributing Co. has 2 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 3.5 out of 5, 0.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products. Its Nutri-Score is C.
- Safety score 0.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
- NOVA processing classification: group 3
Condiments / Sauces / Hot sauces / Groceries
How This Score Is Built
PlainIngredients safety scores are a transparent, editorially-derived index synthesizing FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research into a single 1-5 scale, not an official government rating. 2 of 2 ingredients tracked for Jamaican Choice, Calypso Hot Sauce have a scored rating so far. Data current as of 2026-09-07.
Sourced from Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records. Verify with the FDA → See our full scoring methodology.
Where Jamaican Choice, Calypso Hot Sauce sits nationally
Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients
3.5 Top 91% higher than 9% of 58,710 scored products
Average ingredient safety score (1 = highest risk, 5 = safest), bucketed by value
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Source PlainIngredients ingredient safety index · 2026-09-07
Ingredient Safety Breakdown
Processing Level
Processed foods are relatively simple products made by adding salt, oil, sugar, or other culinary ingredients to whole foods.
Full Ingredients List
Papaya, hot red peppers, sugar, cucumber, food starch, salt, acetic acid, spices, onions, mustard, sodium benzoate
Product Details
- Barcode
- 0027246101155
- Nutri-Score
- Grade C
- NOVA Group
- 3 — Processed foods
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
Is Jamaican Choice, Calypso Hot Sauce above or below average on ingredient safety?
Jamaican Choice, Calypso Hot Sauce scores 3.5 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, in the bottom 91% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, 0.62 points below the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
How should Jamaican Choice, Calypso Hot Sauce's 3.5/5 score be read?
PlainIngredients scores each ingredient 1 (highest risk) to 5 (safest) from FDA and EU regulatory status, then averages the scores of every ingredient this product lists that we could map. A 3.5/5 average places Jamaican Choice, Calypso Hot Sauce in the Mixed Evidence tier.
Every figure on PlainIngredients is rendered directly from FDA, EU, EFSA and U.S. state regulatory records, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.