Before you dab some hot sauce on your next bite of food, you should make sure it's not some of the 400 gallons that were just ...

Today, hot sauce goes far beyond the single grocery ... Capsicum frutescens peppers that had either come from Mexico or Central America in the mid-1800s. He grew his first commercial pepper ...

Perth-based Renae Bunster's venture into the hot sauce world started unintentionally. "I didn't really like chilli that much until I went backpacking around Mexico and Central America in 2011.

They weren't looking to borrow a cup of sugar, as the old saying goes, but rather a cup of hot sauce. "My mom, was already pretty famous back home with the hot sauce she made," Saldivar said.