The Keg Chicken & Ribs Spice — OKAY

Munch or Dump rates The Keg Chicken & Ribs Spice by The Keg OKAY — score 58/90.

A salt-first steakhouse rub with real spices, onion and garlic, but salt dominates and a vague 'flavour' plus annatto colour keep it from being clean.

Why this verdict

• Salt is the first and dominant ingredient, this is mostly seasoned salt
• Recognizable base of select spices, dehydrated onion and garlic
• Contains a vague 'flavour' and annatto colouring rather than a fully clean list
• Short list and no MSG or artificial colours keep it out of engineered territory
• Used sparingly the main issue is sodium, not heavy processing

Ingredients (8)

• Fine ground salt (moderate) — Listed first, so it's the bulk of the product. Excess sodium raises blood pressure; easy to overdo on already-salted meat.
• Select spices (safe) — Real ground spices add flavour with negligible downside.
• DEHYDRATED ONION (safe) — Real seasoning; fine.
• Dehydrated Garlic (safe) — Real seasoning.
• mustard (safe) — Real condiment sub-recipe (vinegar, mustard seed, turmeric, paprika). One of the cleaner lines on the label.
• Vegetable Oil (moderate) — Refined frying oil; the main source of the calorie density and fat.
• Flavour (moderate) — Unspecified added flavoring; nature undisclosed.
• annatto (safe) — Natural plant-based coloring, the least concerning additive here.