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 2026-05-31 · 130 sauces in the ranking
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 total sugars per stated serving, descending. 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) | Carbs (g) | Diet tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Korean BBQ Sauce Original | Sauce | korean | 38 | 43 | no-hfcs |
| 2 | Stubb's Smokey Brown Sugar BBQ Sauce | Sauce | texas | 32 | 41 | gluten-free, no-hfcs, non-gmo |
| 3 | Pineapple Heat BBQ Glaze | Glaze | general | 28 | 28 | - |
| 4 | Peach Habanero BBQ Sauce | Sauce | general | 27 | 28 | - |
| 5 | Blues Hog Raspberry Chipotle BBQ Sauce | Sauce | general | 26 | 27 | gluten-free |
| 6 | Apple Habanero BBQ Glaze | Glaze | general | 26 | 27 | - |
| 7 | Cherry Apple Habanero BBQ Glaze | Glaze | general | 26 | 27 | - |
| 8 | Gochujang BBQ Chicken Sauce | Sauce | korean | 25 | 42 | - |
| 9 | Cherry Habanero BBQ Sauce | Sauce | kansas-city | 24 | 25 | - |
| 10 | Raspberry Chipotle BBQ Sauce | Sauce | general | 24 | 25 | - |
| 11 | Honey Jalapeno BBQ Sauce | Sauce | general | 20 | 21 | - |
| 12 | Sweet Apple Chipotle BBQ Sauce | Sauce | kansas-city | 20 | 21 | - |
| 13 | Rufus Teague Honey Sweet BBQ Sauce | Sauce | kansas-city | 19 | 19 | gluten-free, non-gmo |
| 14 | Blues Hog Hot Honey BBQ Sauce | Sauce | general | 18 | 21 | gluten-free, no-hfcs |
| 15 | Blues Hog Original BBQ Sauce | Sauce | general | 18 | 21 | gluten-free |
| 16 | Duce's Wild Carolina Red BBQ Sauce | Sauce | carolina-vinegar | 18 | 19 | gluten-free |
| 17 | Duce's Wild Competition Sauce | Sauce | kansas-city | 18 | 19 | gluten-free |
| 18 | Brown Sugar Honey Habanero BBQ Glaze | Glaze | general | 18 | 18 | - |
| 19 | Competition BBQ Sauce | Sauce | general | 18 | 20 | - |
| 20 | Maple Honey Habanero BBQ Glaze | Glaze | general | 18 | 19 | - |
| 21 | Kosmos Q Competition BBQ Sauce | Sauce | kansas-city | 18 | 19 | - |
| 22 | TERIYAKI SAUCE NIPPON GLAZE & MARINADE | Marinade | japanese | 18 | 20 | - |
| 23 | Apple Habanero BBQ Glaze | Glaze | general | 17 | 17 | - |
| 24 | Cherry Apple Habanero BBQ Glaze | Glaze | general | 17 | 17 | - |
| 25 | Pineapple Habanero BBQ Glaze | Glaze | general | 17 | 17 | - |
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, then sort descending by total sugars per stated serving. Ties resolve on slug. Each row links back to the source label so the number is auditable.