Amazon Hot'N Sweet Mango Hot Sauce Review

Amazon Hot 'N Sweet Mango 

Note: In July 2025, I found another set of these, which had been unavailable for quite some time. They packaging and bottle labels had been significantly and gorgeously revamped, with an Amazon jungle animal, and some brief information about them, being tied to a sauce. The animal for this sauce is the mighty jaguar. As it had been 12 years and many hundreds of other sauces since I initially reviewed them, I didn't recall the sauce(s) exactly, only that I vaguely remembered liking about half of this set. I therefore went into it with a fresh set of lenses, so to speak, and an open mind. Some of the sauces bore up exactly as I initially reviewed them and others did not. I have left the initial reviews of all here for posterity, as it was a reflection of the sauce(s) at that time and have noted when my impressions changed during the filming for the FOH series, which will be linked above when available.

I got this one as part of a 4 pack, itself something I ordered to basically hit free freight from peppers.com on my last order, figuring if I got one sauce that I liked it, it would be better than paying freight. As it stands, so far I'm thinking I should have just ordered another bottle of Pure Death (reviewed elsewhere in this blog).

This is a sauce listed as mild and I busted it out since I was having Chick Fil-A chicken nuggets. I very quickly abandoned it as it took a fairly good-tasting breading and made it atrocious. I next tried it a few days later on a different chicken dish and later on fish and the taste is simply not good. It's a sour vaguely-mango-ish slightly-vinegary sauce with an hint of what is almost like spoiled habaneros. This is a sauce that detracts from whatever it's put on and the heat is entirely absent. There is literally no reason to use this sauce for anything and so far, the Amazon 4-pack is batting .000. 1 down, 3 to go...

Bottom line: As the conclusion of me posting this review, I'm going to toss this mostly full 3.3 fl. oz. bottle into the trash, which pretty much says it all, I think. In case it doesn't, this is a complete bust.

Update 2025: In a major reversal, when I finally got a set for the FOH video, some 12 years removed, this sauce, while still not hot, is considerably more palatable than previously. It's no longer sour and if anything, borders on cloyingly sweet, with a pretty decent tropical, vaguely mango-ish flavor. The previous rating was all zeros and I have adjusted it according to the newest version, as pictured.

Breakdown:

         Heat level: 1
         Flavor: 8
         Flexibility: 3
         Enjoyment to dollar factor: 7

Overall: 5