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Sha Cha Sauce

Sha cha sauce is a savory Chinese condiment made with dried seafood, aromatics, and seasonings, used in stir-fries, hot pots, and dipping sauces.

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About Sha Cha Sauce

Sha cha sauce is a thick, oily Chinese condiment used to season stir-fries, hot-pot broths, grilled or cooked meats, noodles, and dipping sauces. Its savoury base commonly combines dried seafood with aromatics, chillies, oil, and seasonings. It is often used in small amounts because the flavour is concentrated.

It has a salty, savoury, spicy, and aromatic character, with a noticeable seafood depth in versions containing dried shrimp, fish, or other seafood. Some products are more garlicky or chilli-hot than others. The texture may be coarse from ground solids or relatively smooth and uniform.

Sha cha sauce is usually reddish brown to brown. Oil and heavier seasoned solids can separate during storage, so stirring redistributes them before use. Commercial and regional formulas differ in seafood balance, chilli level, garlic, shallot, sweetness, oiliness, and particle size, producing sauces with distinct intensity.

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Sha Cha Sauce nutrition & diet

Sha Cha Sauce nutritional value

Representative benchmark: Sauce, not further specified

Representative nutrition benchmarkOfficial table values for a comparable food category, not a laboratory measurement of this exact ingredient.

Per 100 g of 100 g edible portion in the named official reference form.

Calories
116kcal
Protein
1.6g
Carbs
25.9g
Fat
0.4g

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Portions & preparation

Identify the brand or recipe before selecting a reference because sha cha sauce can differ in dried seafood, oil, aromatics, salt, sugar, and texture. Match the serving as sauce or cooking ingredient, and distinguish the jarred condiment from a finished stir-fry or hot-pot dish.

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Diet considerations

Sha cha sauce commonly includes animal-derived dried seafood, while its other ingredients are plant-derived or processed seasonings. Compatibility changes with oyster, shrimp, fish, dairy, or animal-fat additions and with cereal-containing coatings or dishes. Sweeteners and portion size can alter the sauce’s carbohydrate pattern.

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Dietary compatibility

  • Vegan
    Typically incompatible
  • Vegetarian
    Typically incompatible
  • Pescatarian
    May be compatible
  • Keto
    Not established
  • Paleo
    May be compatible
  • Low-carb
    Not established
  • Halal
    Not established
  • Kosher
    Typically incompatible
What these diet assessments mean
Vegan · Typically incompatible
Recorded common ingredients: Fish; Dried shrimp. The ingredient profile identifies an animal-derived food or derivative. Recipes and products can differ.
Vegetarian · Typically incompatible
Recorded common ingredients: Fish; Dried shrimp. The profile identifies animal flesh, seafood or a derivative excluded by a vegetarian diet. Recipes and products can differ.
Pescatarian · May be compatible
The recorded ingredients may fit this pattern. This is not a complete recipe or manufacturing specification; check additions and preparation.
Keto · Not established
A defined serving and sourced carbohydrate data are needed before assessing this dietary pattern.
Paleo · May be compatible
The recorded ingredients may fit this pattern. This is not a complete recipe or manufacturing specification; check additions and preparation.
Low-carb · Not established
A defined serving and sourced carbohydrate data are needed before assessing this dietary pattern.
Halal · Not established
Sourcing, processing and any applicable certification have not been verified. A food name alone does not establish halal status.
Kosher · Typically incompatible
Recorded common ingredients: Dried shrimp. This profile identifies shellfish, which does not meet the kosher fish criteria. Recipes and products can differ.

For the plain ingredient · Awaiting review. Diet compatibility is not allergy suitability or halal/kosher certification. Keto and low-carb depend on the portion.

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Sources & review

Nutrition reference: Pacific Nutrient Database 2020 — 01.1.9.3.9_98 ↗. Values are scaled from 100 g of the recorded edible form. Individual portions have no assumed fixed weight.

Expanded overview, name examples and nutrition notes are database drafts awaiting editorial review. Numeric nutrition values, where shown, have their own source and food-form reference.

The ingredient description and dish connections come from the draft catalogue and may change after review.

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