Barbecue sauce, ketchup, mayonnaise, and soy sauce are staples for garnishing your meats, poultry, and fish. But for the most part, they don’t carry much nutrition.
Barbecue sauce and ketchup are high in sugar—and we all know what that can do—while mayo is high calories and soy sauce is high sodium. In a couple of shakes and squeezes, you can turn an otherwise healthy meal into an inflammatory response.
But if you swap these sauces for sweet and spicy salsas, you can increase healthfulness and add some new life into some of your favorite meals. Further, they can contribute to the recommended four-to-five servings of fruit and vegetables per day.
Fresh salsas can be made relatively quickly and come with none of the calories or potential health troubles of most other sauces and spreads. They can be rich in flavor, nutrition, antioxidants, and help fight back against inflammation, weight gain, type-2 diabetes, and more. Chopping and mixing together tomato, onion, cilantro, jalapeno, mango, pineapple, or many other fruits and vegetables can add value to any meal in minutes.
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- 2 mangos, diced
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon freshly ground pepper
- ½ red onion, diced
- ½ cup packed cilantro
- 2 jalapenos, seeded and diced
- 1 lime, zested and juiced
- 1 tablespoon olive oil