| Many people ask the question "Which is | | | | While sugar is not necessarily healthy high |
| better? Store bought or home made barbeque | | | | fructose corn syrup is even less so. It is a |
| sauce?" It really comes down to what your | | | | sugar substitute that is a low grade quality |
| personal preference is but if the run of the | | | | food. The human body is actually unable to |
| mill taste of the bbq sauce found on grocery | | | | metabolize and break it down so when it gets |
| store shelves just doesn't cut it then | | | | to your liver it is almost always instantly |
| creating your own secret sauce can be part of | | | | turned into fat. |
| the grilling fun. | | | | |
| | | | There is an easy way around this problem, |
| Let's face it, using the right or wrong kind | | | | make your own barbecue sauce. Nobody is |
| of barbecue sauce can make or break your | | | | saying that barbecue sauce is the healthiest |
| barbecue. The flavor of your meat, poultry or | | | | of food products, but by making your own |
| pork will live or die by the sauce that you | | | | recipes you can cut out some of the processed |
| choose. Barbecue sauce provides that extra | | | | foods such as high fructose corn syrup. The |
| kick that barbecue is known for and with the | | | | way real barbecue sauce is made is with |
| right kind of sauce any dish you prepare will | | | | natural cane sugar or brown sugar. There are |
| taste that much better. | | | | also hundreds of spices and herbs readily |
| | | | available as well as other ingredients that |
| Let's look at store bought barbecue sauce for | | | | if combined right can make a tasty sauce that |
| a moment. We've all seen the bottles lining | | | | will have friends and family asking you for |
| the shelves. They come in different flavors | | | | your secret recipe. |
| and colors, in small bottles and large | | | | |
| bottles, but are they really the best choice | | | | You start with a basic sauce and add to it |
| for the ultimate in barbecue tastiness? It | | | | from there. A base sauce consists of melted |
| seems that most people are satisfied by what | | | | butter, sugar and small portions of chili |
| they offer, otherwise they wouldn't buy them. | | | | powder, salt, and black pepper. Once you have |
| But for most people it's probably just a | | | | a basic foundation sauce made you can add |
| matter of convenience. What most consumers | | | | some tomato paste, Worcestershire sauce, |
| don't realize is that barbecue sauce bought | | | | maybe some onion powder. Mixing these basic |
| at the local grocery store is nothing more | | | | ingredients in different amounts and |
| then a watered down version of the homemade | | | | combinations will give you a multitude of |
| sauces that make barbecue so popular in the | | | | flavors to start with. After that you can |
| first place. | | | | start adding any number of other spices, |
| | | | herbs or flavorings such as lemon juice, |
| Foods that sit on grocery store shelves have | | | | hickory or mesquite flavoring to make a truly |
| been manufactured with a long shelf life in | | | | personalized barbecue sauce. With a little |
| mind. The ingredients used are chosen because | | | | patience you can create a sauce that can |
| they will not go bad quickly and in many | | | | compete with the best of them. |
| cases are less then healthy. The barbecue | | | | |
| sauce found on store shelves uses high | | | | Store bought barbecue sauce will work in a |
| fructose corn syrup as a sugar substitute | | | | pinch but for truly remarkable barbecue taste |
| because it is a whole lot cheaper to use than | | | | creating your own home made barbecue sauce is |
| natural sugar. | | | | the best way to go. |
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