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What’s Pink Sauce?
Pink Sauce is a pink-colored dipping sauce created by a private chef and TikTok user @chef.pii. The sauce went viral (especially on TikTok) in the summer of 2022 with over 500 million views on the #pinksauce hashtag.
TikTok user @chef.pii (real name Veronica Shaw) announced the creation of the Pink Sauce via TikTok on June 11, 2022. Notably, the featured bottle was in a more purplish tone than what was released to the public. The product went on sale on July 1, 2022, and sold out sometime around August 3, 2022.
Dave’s Gourmet, the company that produces sauce featured in Hot Ones, partnered with Veronica and reformulated the recipe. There were plans to sell the sauce in retail stores in the fall of 2022.
According to chef.pii, the sauce contained sunflower seed oil, pitaya (dragonfruit), raw honey, milk, and garlic.