Sauces and dips

Yenzo has checked 10 products in this group, from Bibigo, Chin-Su, Cholimex and 7 other brands; on a Vietnamese pack the group is called “nước chấm, nước sốt”. The ingredient list and the nutrition table of each product come from its own label — 3 from label photos checked by Yenzo and 7 from the open database Open Food Facts — and every product is rated with the same open formula the Yenzo app uses. Product names are given as printed on the pack, in Vietnamese, with a short English description in brackets.

On the Yenzo scale, 8 are rated “Moderate”, 1 “Good” and 1 “Excellent”. Across these 10 products, the thing that most often pulls the rating down is salt (9 of 10 products), followed by sugar (6) and ultra-processing (6). The ratings compare sauces and dips with each other by the same rules — which rank higher within the group — not whether to eat them. Each product's page lists the reasons behind its level, figure by figure, with the threshold each figure is measured against.