Pink Sauce facts for kids
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| Type | Condiment |
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| Place of origin | United States |
| Region or state | Florida |
| Created by | Veronica Shaw (@chef.pii) |
| Invented | 2022 |
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Pink Sauce was a bright pink dipping sauce that became very popular online. It was created by a chef named Veronica Shaw, who is known as @chef.pii on TikTok. The sauce became a huge trend, especially on TikTok, in the summer of 2022. Videos about Pink Sauce were viewed over 500 million times using the #pinksauce hashtag.
History of Pink Sauce
The creator of Pink Sauce, Veronica Shaw (also known as @chef.pii), first showed her new sauce on TikTok on June 11, 2022. The bottle she showed at first looked a bit more purple than the sauce that was later sold.
The Pink Sauce officially went on sale to the public on July 1, 2022. It was so popular that it sold out by early August 2022. Later, a company called Dave's Gourmet, which makes sauces for the show Hot Ones, worked with Veronica Shaw. They planned to change the recipe a little and sell the sauce in stores, but these plans did not happen.
What's in Pink Sauce?
According to Chef Pii, the Pink Sauce was made with several ingredients. These included sunflower seed oil, pitaya (which is also called dragonfruit), raw honey, chili pepper, milk, and garlic. The dragonfruit is what gave the sauce its unique pink color.
Pink Sauce and Food Safety
Because the sauce was so popular and new, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States started to look into it on August 2, 2022. The FDA is a government group that makes sure food products are safe for people to eat.
Before the FDA started its review, Chef Pii had said that her business was following all the rules. She said she was "100% compliant" with the FDA. However, the FDA did not officially confirm that the product was fully approved or safe at that time. This situation added to some of the discussions and concerns people had about Pink Sauce online.
