How many calories are in Worcestershire sauce?

A tablespoon is 13 calories and a teaspoon is 4. Per 100g the sauce is 77 calories, which reads high beside soy sauce at 60 calories per 100g until you remember nobody pours either by the cup.

How much sodium is in Worcestershire sauce?

Worcestershire sauce carries 1,300mg of sodium per 100g, so a tablespoon is 221mg, roughly a tenth of a day's limit. Soy sauce is in another league at 5,590mg of sodium per 100g, which is why a splash of Worcestershire salts a dish so much more gently.

Is Worcestershire sauce vegetarian?

The traditional recipe is not. Anchovies are fermented into the base and appear on the label of the original. Vegetarian and vegan bottlings swap in tamarind, soy and mushroom or seaweed for the same savory depth, and land in the same range of 13 calories a tablespoon.

Is Worcestershire sauce gluten-free?

It depends where it was bottled. The American version is made with distilled white vinegar and is labeled gluten-free; the British original uses malt vinegar from barley and is not. Neither choice moves the 77 calories per 100g, but it decides whether you can use it at all.

Is Worcestershire sauce keto-friendly?

In the amounts anyone actually uses, yes. The sauce is 19.2g of carbohydrate per 100g, but a teaspoon is 1.1g and a tablespoon 3.3g. A marinade using a quarter cup across four servings adds about 3.3g each, which fits a keto day without thought.

How much sugar is in Worcestershire sauce?

It carries 10g of sugar per 100g, about half its carbohydrate, from the molasses and sugar in the recipe. A tablespoon is 1.7g, under half a teaspoon of sugar, which is why it reads savory rather than sweet beside BBQ sauce at 33.2g of sugar per 100g.

What is Worcestershire sauce made of?

Vinegar, molasses, sugar, salt, anchovies, tamarind, onion, garlic and spices, aged in barrels for months. That fermentation produces the glutamates behind the savory hit, and it also explains the 1,300mg of sodium per 100g and the 800mg of potassium sitting beside it.

Can I substitute soy sauce for Worcestershire sauce?

For color and salt, yes; for flavor, not really. Soy sauce is 5,590mg of sodium per 100g against Worcestershire's 1,300mg, so a straight swap salts a dish four times harder and brings none of the tamarind sourness. Soy sauce with a splash of vinegar and a pinch of sugar gets closer.

Does Worcestershire sauce have any nutritional value?

Traces that only matter in quantities nobody eats. Per 100g it holds 5.3mg of iron and 107mg of calcium, but a tablespoon of that is 0.9mg of iron, around 5% of a day. Treat it as flavoring: 13 calories, no fat and no protein.