Tabasco sauce

Tabasco
	Original Tabasco red pepper sauce
Company type	Privately held company
Industry	Food
Founded	1868
Founder	Edmund McIlhenny
Key people	Harold Osborn, CEO
Products	Hot sauce and other condiments
Brands	Tabasco
Owner	McIlhenny family
Number of employees	About 200 (per company web site, August 2014)
Heat	Hot
Scoville scale	100–35,000 SHU
Website	tabasco.com

Tabasco is an American brand of hot sauce made from tabasco peppers, vinegar and salt. It is produced by McIlhenny Company of Avery Island in south Louisiana, having been created over 150 years ago by Edmund McIlhenny.^[1] Although the tabasco peppers used in the sauce were initially grown only on Avery Island, they are now primarily cultivated in Central America, South America and Africa.^[2] The Tabasco sauce brand also has multiple varieties including the original red sauce, habanero, chipotle, sriracha and Trinidad Moruga scorpion. Tabasco products are sold in more than 195 countries and territories, and packaged in 36 languages and dialects.

^ "Tabasco Sauce History and Lore". thespruceeats.com. Retrieved August 31, 2021.
^ "Tabasco Hot Sauce and the Fate of Louisiana's Shorelines". sierraclub.org. March 14, 2018. Retrieved March 18, 2022.

[1] "Tabasco Sauce History and Lore". thespruceeats.com. Retrieved August 31, 2021.

[2] "Tabasco Hot Sauce and the Fate of Louisiana's Shorelines". sierraclub.org. March 14, 2018. Retrieved March 18, 2022.

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