Franks Red Hot <3
Buffm4n
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I LOVE Franks Red Hot Sauce, but my sodium levels are through the roof! Do you guys know of any other good condiments that I could replace it with? Thank you!
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The best sauces have lots of sodium. You can get spices consisting of crushed red pepper seeds or, perhaps, scotch bonnet, or even Carolina reaper, which give you the capsaicin without the sodium.2
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There is nothing that replaces perfection. There are two things we never run out of in my house and its Franks and Mustard.12
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How much are you using?1
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you guys get me. I would literally remove salt from my diet in every other facet if it meant keeping red hot. I could drink it. I put it on EVERYTHING. the meal I just ate was buffalo cauliflower and scrambled eggs and pork chops and I will let you GUESS what was part of every aspect.
good luck to ya, op.3 -
I would try adding plain ground cayenne (and a touch of garlic powder) to food as you're cooking to get near the heat level you're looking for. Then just use a splash or two of Franks.2
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Franks Red Hot makes up roughly 80% of my sodium intake, I don't eat much sodium outside of it.1 -
You're all my people. I also get 80% of my sodium from hot sauce, but I'm more of a sriracha person.
I just try to be cognizant of not adding salt to stuff if I'm going to also douse it in hot sauce, drink plenty of water, and don't worry about it much beyond that. However, I should probably add that my blood pressure is on the low side and my doctor has encouraged a higher salt intake to help with the little bit of orthostatic hypotension I tend to experience.1 -
FYI, real people know that sriracha isn't hot.5
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JeromeBarry1 wrote: »FYI, real people know that sriracha isn't hot.
"Real people", as opposed to...?
Thanks but no thanks on the hot sauce snobbery. It's chili based? It's hot sauce. I don't judge.2 -
Franks Red Hot makes up roughly 80% of my sodium intake, I don't eat much sodium outside of it.
The bottle of Frank's I'm holding right now has 8% of your daily sodium in a teaspoon. Are you using more than 10 teaspoons per day? Going through more than a bottle a week?
I would say try using a little less. You could also experiment with dry seasonings like different peppers to get the heat without any other ingredients. Any kind of hot sauce is going to have some sodium in it, I would think. Frank's isn't really high in sodium, if you are getting problematic levels of sodium from it, it's because you're using an extreme amount.3 -
I feel ya...I like to dunk my food in it. If you want to reduce your sodium intake I would follow the advice above to use seasonings instead for the heat and then a splash of frank's. That way you still get what you love and don't sacrifice the flavor.1
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gearhead426hemi wrote: »There is nothing that replaces perfection. There are two things we never run out of in my house and its Franks and Mustard.
#preach1 -
Franks Red Hot makes up roughly 80% of my sodium intake, I don't eat much sodium outside of it.
The bottle of Frank's I'm holding right now has 8% of your daily sodium in a teaspoon. Are you using more than 10 teaspoons per day? Going through more than a bottle a week?
I would say try using a little less. You could also experiment with dry seasonings like different peppers to get the heat without any other ingredients. Any kind of hot sauce is going to have some sodium in it, I would think. Frank's isn't really high in sodium, if you are getting problematic levels of sodium from it, it's because you're using an extreme amount.
I could go through a bottle a week LOL2 -
Just read this and I also love Frank's looked at my sodium out of curiosity it's 3000 over my "goal" I'm not worried I don't usually pay attention to it as long as I'm in my calories that's what matters to me1
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Franks Red Hot makes up roughly 80% of my sodium intake, I don't eat much sodium outside of it.
The bottle of Frank's I'm holding right now has 8% of your daily sodium in a teaspoon. Are you using more than 10 teaspoons per day? Going through more than a bottle a week?
I would say try using a little less. You could also experiment with dry seasonings like different peppers to get the heat without any other ingredients. Any kind of hot sauce is going to have some sodium in it, I would think. Frank's isn't really high in sodium, if you are getting problematic levels of sodium from it, it's because you're using an extreme amount.
I could go through a bottle a week LOL
Oh, sure! And if that's the case here, no judgement from me at all. But if you are using a quarter cup of hot sauce a day and the sodium involved concerns you, I'd think the first thing to try is to use it in a slightly less excessive way and see if your taste buds can get used to say 3/4 the amount.0
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