What peppers do you think they are made of?

> Huy Fong Foods' chili sauces are made from fresh, red, jalapeño chili peppers and contain no added water or artificial colors.[9] Garlic powder is used rather than fresh garlic.[10] The company formerly used serrano chilis, but found them difficult to harvest. To keep the sauce hot, the company produces only up to a monthly pre-sold quota in order to use only peppers from known sources.[4]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sriracha_sauce_(Huy_Fong_Foods...

> It was due to a fateful phone call Underwood made to a mutual vendor of Trans that linked these two together at the beginning of Sriracha’s growth. That first year, they grew 50 acres of chiles for Huy Fong Foods (average yield: 30 tons per acre). Four years ago they were up to 17,000 tons, and today, after 26 years in business with Tran, Underwood Ranch grows 58,000 tons of the unique jalapeño chiles used exclusively by Huy Fong Foods. That’s 2,000 acres of farmland devoted to Sriracha alone, with plans to keep expanding. This is done two years in advance, so there’s time to find the right fields and to prep the soil for optimal growing conditions.

* https://web.archive.org/web/20171022081321/http://farmtotabl...

The chilis used to make Sriracha are red jalapenos, which are regular jalapenos left on the vine to mature.

I bet he's getting paid by the company.

I saw this sauce for years in questionable restaurants, but only in the last few years I seem to read about it all the time.