Review: Mable’s Taste of Home Raspberry Jalapeno Dipping Sauce

Label: The 8 oz. bottle is glass and hexagonal shaped. The label is glossy raspberry colored with light gold trim on all sides. All the font is light gold colored as well. To the right of the title is their home address. To the left of the title is the ingredients. On the back 3 sides (1/2 a hexagon) is serving suggestions that read:
Appetizer: Spread cream cheese on plate 1/8″ to 1/4″ thick and pour or spead over cream cheese. Serve with assorted crackers .
Dipping Sauce for pretzel, vegetable, or fruit: Use directly from jar or beat into cream cheese , adding whipped topping and raspberry jalapeno dipping sauce to taste. Also great for dipping cocktail wieners, shrimp or crab cakes.
Entree: Delicious on grilled cheese and ham and cheese sandwhiches. Also tasty on pork, turkey, duck. Use as a dip for chicken fingers or Shrimp. Baste pork, ham, turkey etc. while roasting. A tasteful delight on wild game and fish.
Dessert:Delightful as an ice cream topping.

Ingredients: Sugar, Corn Syrup, Apple Cider Vinegar, Water, Red Raspberries, Eggs, Modified Starch, Habanero and or Jalapeno Peppers, Ground Mustard, Natural and Artificial Flavors, Salt, Citric Acid, Pectin, Artificial Color (FD & C Red #40 and Blue#1).

Appearance: The color is of dark raspberries blended up with pectin added to make it smooth. The consistency is thick but not overwhelmingly thick. There are no pepper seeds or flesh visible. I see no signs of mustard or eggs. Occasional black raspberry seeds pop up.

Odor: The main odor is of raspberry puree. The odor is very pleasant and there is a small trace of the apple cider vinegar if you concentrate on the aroma. I am unable to smell any jalapeno or habanero peppers. Any signs of mustard cannot be distinguished either.

Fat free vanilla sundae with strawberries and added Mable’s raspberry dipping sauce.
Taste: After having my first spoonful the taste was better than I had thought it would have been based on the aroma alone. The vanilla ice cream and raspberries went great with the strawberries and syrup. What I like about it was that there was no pepper taste, which was good since I was able to concentrate on the raspberry flavor and ice cream. However, the heat was not really present in any form. The one down side if any, would be that to some degree the dipping sauce seemed to be slightly artificial. It didn’t seem like a natural spread to me. However, once I had a few more spoonfuls the flavor really was great and seemed very natural.

Final Thoughts: This Mable’s Raspberry Dipping Sauce is perfect for those of you who want to add some raspberry flavor to a dessert dish. My one main argument is that this ingredient seems to go well on cold desserts such as ice cream or a cold cake, perhaps. I tried having it at room temperature with crackers and I didn’t care for the flavor that much. It was ok, but the flavor did seem artificial at room temperature. If you are trying to find a dipping sauce with a good amount of heat, this isn’t for you. There are many hotter jams out there. If you don’t want pepper taste though then this is a good product you can go with.

Packaging 8.5/10
Aroma 7.5/10
Taste 7/10
Appearance 8.5/10
Heat 2/10

Overall 6.7

Mable’s Taste of Home
P.O. Box 11352
Fargo, North Dakota 58106
(701) 282-4010 or (218) 498-2466