TikTok pink sauce: What is it — and what’s in it?

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It’s tangy, it’s candy and it’s the colour of Pepto-Bismol. 

Pink sauce is the most recent meals pattern taking up TikTok, garnering greater than 120 million views on the app.

We’re not speaking in regards to the ketchup and mayo mix eaten with tostones or a resurgence of the squeezable pink butter from the early aughts.

This pink sauce is a pastel concoction created and bought by TikToker Carly Pii (@chef.pii.) According to her web site, it’s made from sunflower seed oil, honey, chili, garlic and dragon fruit — which, presumably, give it its pink colour.

The mysterious condiment has each confused and intrigued the web, with some speeding to strive the pink sauce and others expressing their not-so-subtle disgust on Twitter.

The pink sauce and its creator got here underneath fireplace by on-line critics mentioning inconsistencies in the sauce’s colour and texture and questioning the security of the preparation and transport course of. Misspelled components on the label, the lack of refrigeration, errors in the vitamin info and the $20 per bottle price ticket have been a few of the essential purple flags for customers.

More than 6 million individuals noticed a TikTok mentioning that the vitamin label reads 444 servings per bottle.

Chef Pii, who is reportedly a Miami-area private chef, cleared up the serving dimension mistake in an apology video the place she defined that there are literally 444 grams of pink sauce per bottle, which is about 30 servings. She chalked the error on the label to the rising pains of a fast-moving small enterprise.

However, in the video, she additionally claims the corporate is “following FDA standard” and is at present in “lab testing.” But, the product undoubtedly is not FDA-approved, not less than for now.

It’s laborious to say for positive. Several have introduced up considerations in regards to the uncooked honey and chopped garlic’s capability to trigger botulism.

Food security specialist Brigette Joseph informed Yahoo News, “It is absolutely not safe to buy unregulated food from strangers on a social media platform just because it has gone viral.”

Still, the Florida chef has maintained that her product is authorized and protected. In an interview with The Washinton Post, Chef Pii stated she makes the pink sauce in a business facility that is licensed by the FDA.

For now, based on Fortune, manufacturing of the sauce is on maintain. Chef Pii stated in a Youtube live stream on Thursday that her staff is working to handle the completely different well being considerations.