Highest Sugar BBQ Sauces: Ranked from Verified Labels
The highest-sugar BBQ sauces in our database, ranked by published label data. Useful for buyers tracking added sugars, and for understanding how much sugar typical commercial BBQ sauce contains per serving.
Last updated 2026-07-07 · 172 sauces in the ranking
Data license: CC BY-SA 4.0 · a view of the BBQ Sauce Database (free CSV download)
A typical American BBQ sauce is, by weight, mostly sugar after water. This page is the inverse of our lowest-sugar leaderboard: sauces ordered by sugars per 100 g, descending, normalized from each label's stated serving weight so different serving sizes compare fairly. The point is calibration. If you want to know what "a lot of sugar" looks like in this category before you read a low-sugar comparison, start here.
| # | Sauce | Type | Style | Sugars (g/100g) | Sugars per serving (g) | Serving | Diet tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Peach Habanero BBQ Sauce | Sauce | general | 87.1 | 27 | 2 tbsp (31g) | - |
| 2 | Cherry Apple Habanero BBQ Glaze | Glaze | general | 72.2 | 26 | 2 Tbsp (36g) | - |
| 3 | Pineapple Heat BBQ Glaze | Glaze | general | 70 | 28 | 2 tbsp (40g) | - |
| 4 | Cherry Habanero BBQ Sauce | Sauce | kansas-city | 68.6 | 24 | 2 tbsp (35g) | - |
| 5 | Blues Hog Raspberry Chipotle BBQ Sauce | Sauce | general | 68.4 | 26 | 2 tbsp (38g) | gluten-free |
| 6 | Apple Habanero BBQ Glaze | Glaze | general | 68.4 | 26 | 2 Tbsp (38g) | - |
| 7 | Bone Suckin' Extra Hot Honey, 12 oz - Squeeze Bottle | Sauce | carolina-vinegar | 66.7 | 14 | 1 Tbsp (21g) | gluten-free, non-gmo, no-hfcs |
| 8 | Brown Sugar Honey Habanero BBQ Glaze | Glaze | general | 64.3 | 18 | 2 TBSP (28g) | - |
| 9 | Maple Honey Habanero BBQ Glaze | Glaze | general | 64.3 | 18 | 2 TBSP (28g) | - |
| 10 | Apple Habanero BBQ Glaze | Glaze | general | 60.7 | 17 | 2 TBSP (28g) | - |
| 11 | Cherry Apple Habanero BBQ Glaze | Glaze | general | 60.7 | 17 | 2 TBSP (28g) | - |
| 12 | Pineapple Habanero BBQ Glaze | Glaze | general | 60.7 | 17 | 2 TBSP (28g) | - |
| 13 | Raspberry Chipotle BBQ Sauce | Sauce | general | 60 | 24 | 2 Tbsp (40g) | - |
| 14 | Hot Honey Peach BBQ Glaze | Glaze | general | 57.1 | 16 | 2 TBSP (28g) | - |
| 15 | Apple Habanero Bar-B-Q Sauce | Sauce | general | 56.8 | 21 | 1 portion (37 g) | - |
| 16 | Rufus Teague Honey Sweet BBQ Sauce | Sauce | kansas-city | 55.9 | 19 | 2 Tbsp (34g) | gluten-free, non-gmo |
| 17 | Sweet BBQ Sauce | Sauce | kansas-city | 53.1 | 17 | 2 Tbsp (32g) | - |
| 18 | Raspberry Chipotle Bar-B-Q Sauce | Sauce | general | 52.8 | 19 | 2 tbsp (36 g) | - |
| 19 | Blues Hog Original BBQ Sauce | Sauce | general | 50 | 18 | 2 tbsp (36g) | gluten-free |
| 20 | Competition BBQ Sauce | Sauce | general | 50 | 18 | 2 Tbsp (36g) | - |
| 21 | Gold Label Sauces Sweet Honey BBQ Sauce | Sauce | general | 50 | 17 | 2 Tbsp (34g) | - |
| 22 | Honey Jalapeno BBQ Sauce | Sauce | general | 50 | 20 | 2 tbsp (40g) | - |
| 23 | Kosmos Q Competition BBQ Sauce | Sauce | kansas-city | 50 | 18 | 2 Tbsp (36g) | - |
| 24 | Sweet Apple Chipotle BBQ Sauce | Sauce | kansas-city | 50 | 20 | 2 Tbsp (40g) | - |
| 25 | KC Gold BBQ Sauce | Sauce | carolina-mustard | 50 | 17 | 2 Tbsp (34g) | gluten-free, non-gmo |
Method
Same data pipeline as the lowest-sugar leaderboard, sorted the other way. We start from our sauce database, drop any sauce whose ingredient data is missing or unverified, drop any sauce without a published sugar number or a parseable serving weight, normalize to grams per 100 g (volume-only servings convert at 1.14 g/ml and carry a ~), then sort descending by sugars per 100 g. Ties resolve on slug. Each row links back to the source label so the number is auditable.