Crusher Bottle

Crusher Bottle

Through long hours of sightseeing, we were impressed by the healthy profits hidden in the slim bottle of red. Here are 5 good-for-you reasons to hit the sauce:

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1. It's clean. Tabasco has zero calories, zero and zero artificial salt sketchiness. It's a beautiful color is not the color - it is the true color of the peppers, which Avery Island Hot Sauce engineers match with wooden pegs to make sure that you are a perfect shade of mature red. Only components: at the age of mash pepper, distilled vinegar and a little Avery Island salt.

2. It is not packed with salt. One bottle of Tabasco is less than 2 percent salt. Not all hot sauces are low in sodium, so read labels!

3. It helps to stoke your metabolism. Some studies have shown that capsaicin, the compound that gives the Chili Peppers kick their sharp, generates enough heat to raise body temperature, which helps burn more calories - about 8 percent bump - immediately after a meal.

4. Keeps you satisfied. In one study, patients who sharp snap of the consumption of about 200 calories less, when the main course came around, compared to patients who had no capsaicin.

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5. It makes healthy food more delicious. Add spicy fish, eggs, salad or barbecue sauce to give a bonus, minus the calories. For inspiration, click here to browse thousands of recipes (some of them are not the healthiest, so dive in and steal ideas for their own version of low-cal). And here is a great recipe for Cajun SELF Turkey Cheeseburgers with Ketchup Tabasco.