The Keg Chicken & Ribs Spice — OKAY

Munch or Dump rates The Keg Chicken & Ribs Spice by The Keg OKAY — score 60/90.

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) — Just dried onion, a clean whole-food flavouring.
• Dehydrated Garlic (safe) — Dried garlic, recognizable and harmless.
• mustard (safe) — Simple flavoring with negligible health impact.
• Vegetable Oil (moderate) — Refined oil padding the fat content beyond the butter.
• Flavour (moderate) — Unspecified added flavoring; nature undisclosed.
• annatto (safe) — Natural colour from achiote seed; cosmetic, no nutritional point, rare allergen.