Valentina Hot Sauce

37 · Joined: 03 Dec 2005 Posts: 56

Anyone know if this is GF? I can't find a website for them and there's no contact info on the bottle.

aklap · Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Posts: 8542 Location: WI, USA

Hi 37,

It appears to be a Mexican company. Give their website a try. It doesn't seem to work for me.

http://www.salsavalentina.com/pages/735189/index.htm

Our own Aztecprinces lives in Mexico. I'll send her an email to see if she knows Smile

http://www.hotsauceworld.com/hsw1115.html - if you look at the larger picture of this bottle, you can see some ingredients... Are we looking at the same stuff?
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37 · Joined: 03 Dec 2005 Posts: 56

I tried that site and it just has some images which I can't click on. That is the same one I'm talking about. Most of the ingredients seem ok, i'm just not sure what's in the "spices". I really love this stuff because I lived in Mexico for 3 years when I was a kid, so I grew up with it.

Al · Guest

I saw one site that listed Valentia Black Label hot sauce...what that is...I do not know. But it listed the ingredients. The one that caught my eye was VINEGAR - you'd have to know if it was distilled or not.

Al

duchessisa · Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 5:20 pm Post subject:

Al ,
I was told by the Stanford dietician that all vinegar (except malt) is safe for celiacs. This was part of the main discussion on foods at the Stanford Celiac Convention 2002. She had scientific looking papers and everything Laughing

aklap · Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Posts: 8542 Location: WI, USA

duchessisa · Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 11:02 am Post subject:

I don't remember the dietician saying "through out the world" but I do remeber some one from the audience began to argue with her and she cut him short and said "ALL VINEGAR...ALL EXCEPT MALT". It was kinda funny Laughing

aklap · Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Posts: 8542 Location: WI, USA

I really don't know how they process vinegar in other countries. If it's distilled - yeah it's safe. I'd rather be safe than sorry. Wink

Maybe AztecPrincess would know about vinegar.
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37 · Joined: 03 Dec 2005 Posts: 56

Thanks for the input so far guys. I'm hopeful from what I heard so far.

agcrean · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Posts: 14 Location: Charleston, SC

I would love to know what ya'll find out! I use this hot sauce too and have never had a reaction.

aztecprincess · Joined: 03 Nov 2004 Posts: 41 Location: Mexico City

People, at ease! Most of our distilled vinegar, at least the very commercial kind is made from sugar cane. The apple cider vinegar is also available but is not widely used since it has a stronger flavor, but still is safe to use. Hope this helps. I haven't been able to get a hold of these people at the Valentina Sauce Co. You have to understand they don't demand of manufacturers to label all their ingredients. I've seen them translate labels and specify allergies mostly on imported american products...One funny thing I found out about some belgian chocolate I used to like (before I couldnt understand why it made me kind of sick, thought it was the fat or nuts) is that for the mexican market they don't label it as containing gluten, but they do for their distribution in Brazil??? I mean really! Anyway, if you have any other questions please feel free to ask. I will try my best to do some research and give you the answer. That is if Al, doesn't beat me to it first, hahaha. Happy New Year Everyone!!! Iris
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aztecprincess · Joined: 03 Nov 2004 Posts: 41 Location: Mexico City

Sorry, I forgot to copy ingredients:
Water, dried puya and serrano chile peppers, acetic acid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetic_acid), iodized salt, condiments, spices and 0.1% of sodium benzoate as preservative (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_benzoate)
Enjoy!
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