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With the holiday weekend coming up, it’s the perfect time to fire up the grill, but your choice of BBQ sauce can make it or break it, nutritionally speaking. In today’s Get the Skinny, we’ve got your top picks, and which brands can pack in a day’s worth of added sugar!

Looking to make your own homemade BBQ sauce? Check out this recipe for a delicious low-carb BBQ sauce!

 

LOVE IT!

Stubb’s All-Natural Bar-B-Q Sauce

  • Per 2 tbsp: 25 cals – 0 fat – 240 mg sodium – 6 grams carbs – 3 grams sugar – 0 protein
  • Tomato paste, sugar, vinegar, molasses, tapioca dextrin, salt, brown sugar, spices…

 

Austin’s Own BBQ Sauce

  • Per 2 tbsp: 30 cals – 0 fat – 280 mg sodium – 8 grams carbs – 4 grams sugar – 0 protein
  • Ketchup (tomato paste, vinegar, corn syrup, salt…), vinegar, brown sugar, Worcestershire…

 

LIKE IT!

Walden Farms Honey BBQ Sauce (also available in Original, Thick ‘N Spicy, Hickory Smoked)

  • Per 2 tbsp: 0 cals – 0 fat – 210 mg sodium – 0 carbs – 0 sugar – 0 protein
  • Water, tomato paste, apple cider vinegar, Dijon mustard, vinegar, cellulose gel, salt…. Sucralose…

 

HATE IT!                   

KC Masterpiece Original

  • Per 2 tbsp: 60 cals – 0 fat – 240 mg sodium – 15 grams carbs – 12 grams sugar – 0 protein
  • Tomato puree, high fructose corn syrup, molasses, vinegar…

 

Kraft Sweet & Spicy Chipotle Barbeque Sauce

  • Per 2 tbsp: 60 cals – 0 fat – 360 mg sodium – 16 grams carbs – 14 grams sugar – 0 protein
  • High fructose corn syrup, vinegar, water, tomato paste, molasses, sugar, apple cider vinegar…

 

Sweet Baby Ray’s Original Barbecue Sauce

  • Per 2 tbsp: 70 cals – 0 fat – 290 mg sodium – 18 grams carbs – 16 grams sugar – 0 protein
  • High fructose corn syrup, distilled vinegar, tomato paste, modified food starch….