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McIlhenny Company
Private (family-owned)
Industry Food processing
Founded 1868; 156 years ago (1868)
Founder Edmund McIlhenny
Headquarters Avery Island, Louisiana, U.S.
Key people
 Harold Osborn, CEO
Products Hot sauce and other condiments
Number of employees
 About 200 (per company web site, August 2014)
Heat Hot
Scoville scale 2,500 - 5,000 SHU

Tabasco sauce is the brand name for a hot sauce produced by US-based McIlhenny Company of Avery Island, Louisiana. Tabasco sauce is made from tabasco peppers (Capsicum frutescens var. tabasco), vinegar, and salt, and aged in white oak barrels for three years. It has a hot, spicy flavor.

Images for kids

  • Tabad(ca1905)

    A Tabasco advertisement from ca. 1905. Note the cork-top bottle and diamond logo label, which are similar to those in use today.

  • BarrellwarehouseSMALL

    Tabasco pepper mash aging in barrels on Avery Island, Louisiana

  • Tabasco-varieties

    A few of the varieties of Tabasco sauce, with the original on the far right.

  • Tabasco bottle 2013

    Original Tabasco red pepper sauce

  • Tobasco sauce in an MRE

    Tabasco sauce highlighted in an MRE, middle right

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Salsa Tabasco para niños

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