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. 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. 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.
Original Tabasco red pepper sauce
A Tabasco advertisement from c. 1905. Note the cork-top bottle and diamond logo label, which is similar to those in use today.
Tabasco pepper mash aging in barrels on Avery Island, Louisiana.
A few of the varieties of Tabasco sauce, with the original on the far right.
Hot sauce is a type of condiment, seasoning, or salsa made from chili peppers and other ingredients. Many commercial varieties of mass-produced hot sauce exist.
A fermented hot sauce
Hot sauces come in many varieties
Pique sauce
Original Tabasco red pepper sauce