After seeing Newman’s dismal review of the Wizard’s organic hot sauce I decided to crack open an organic sauce I had around and give it a try.
100% Organic Ingredients: Ripened habanero peppers, red ripened jalapeño peppers, apple cider vinegar, vinegar, salt.
Oh no, two types of vinegar! Could I be in trouble where all I would taste is vinegar, vinegar and more vinegar? The bottle appears bright red, meaning my peppers are packed inside and had uniformity inside the bottle. This of course eased my worries.
The food of choice for this sauce will be homemade pizza made on the barbecue. Superb would be the word of choice for the pizza on its own without the sauce, so how did is fare with sauce? Surprisingly enough it held its ground. You can taste the habaneros but not so much the jalapeños. The vinegar does not overpower the sauce or force it to be runny. It surprised me in every way including the heat. It added to the heat without taking away from my pizza. I would use this sauce again and recommend it to anyone who is looking to go organic without loosing the sauce.
Appearance ““ 8/10
Consistency ““ 7.5/10
Heat ““ 7/10
Taste ““ 7.8/10
Arizona Pepper Products Co., Inc.
PO Box 40605
Mesa, AZ
85274p>
1-800-359-3912
Written by Sporto
Nick Lindauer founded Hot Sauce Blog in 2004, making it one of the internet's very first hot sauce review sites. After 20+ years of tasting, reviewing, and attending every major fiery foods event in the country, he's back behind the keyboard covering the hot sauce world he helped build.
5 responses to “Review: Organic Harvest Foods – Habanero Pepper Sauce”
It’s nice to see some organic sauces coming out on the market. I just wish the damn ingredients weren’t SO expensive! Otherwise I would be making 100% organic sauces as well.
Well, that’s an interesting label. Where’s the organic certification stamp? If the product isn’t certified organic, how does the word “organic” get to be on the primary panel?
Interestingly enough, here in Canada, because our kitchen isn’t certified by an organic certification board, it is against the law to use the word “organic” on the primary label even if 100% of my ingredients are organic.
If you don’t mind, Sporto, could you look at the label please and tell me if there is a certification stamp?
If not… someone want to point me to where the “organic” rules are that say that US labels don’t need to be certified. If this is true, I have a bunch of labels that are eligible to be labeled 100% organic.
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On the back of the bottle it has an Organic certifiers mark, as well as the green USDA organic stamp…so it is actually organic
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The funny thing is that from the literature I’ve read on organic farming, there is not much of a cost difference, only more time and effort actually farming. It is only expensive b/c there is a demand for the product and they can get away with selling it at a higher price. Then again, I am not an actual farmer…..
I just bought a whack of organic peppers yesterday, Sporto… No cost difference, in fact, they were cheaper than the non-organic ones sell for. These ones though are cheaper than the organic imports I buy when the local ones are out of season… Which is most of the time.
Back to the certification question. If Arizona Pepper reads this, I hope they’ll comment… I’m curious why they don’t put the organic stamp on the primary panel, If I were certified, I’d have my stamp up front and center like we do our Fair Trade stamps… Also… I went on the website and although it says “organic” it doesn’t have the stamp there either… You guys may be missing out on sales because those of us who buy organic are clicking away because the stamp isn’t there… just a thought.
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