Create allergy card
← Browse ingredients

Sour Plum Sauce

Sour plum sauce is a tart, sweetened fruit sauce used as a condiment, dip, or cooking sauce.

Sour Plum Sauce — illustrative ingredient image

About Sour Plum Sauce

Sour plum sauce is a prepared fruit condiment made from sour or salted plum material that is sweetened and reduced into a pourable or spoonable sauce. It is served as a dipping condiment, glaze, table sauce, or cooking ingredient for savoury foods and snacks.

Its flavour commonly combines tart fruit, sweetness, salt, and sometimes spice. The sauce can be smooth or pulpy, and thin or thick. The English label covers multiple regional preparations, so the plum type, preservation method, and formula are unspecified.

It may range from amber or reddish-brown to dark brown. Commercial and regional versions can use fresh, dried, salted, or preserved plums; straining, reduction, and retained fruit solids change acidity, colour, texture, and intensity.

Ingredient type
sauce

Forms & related ingredients

  • Saltcontains · Sour Plum Sauce → Salt
  • Plumcontains · Sour Plum Sauce → Plum
  • Sugarcontains · Sour Plum Sauce → Sugar

FOLLOW IT TO THE PLATE

Where will you meet it?

Explore the dishes that use this ingredient and their country and cuisine connections.

Explore linked dishes

ON A MENU OR LABEL

Find local names and written forms to help recognise this ingredient.

See local names

Where sour plum sauce appears

1 linked foods

Find foods to recognise by country and type. Recipes and products vary; these are recorded ingredient connections.

Showing 1–1 of 1

Soups

Ingredient connections awaiting review · Coverage is still growing, including packaged snacks.

Name examples awaiting language review. Confirm the specific food or product.

Local names for sour plum sauce

Names and romanised forms to recognise on menus and labels.

English

Sour Plum Sauce

Available names only. Languages may be spoken in other countries; a name alone does not identify every ingredient in a dish.

Sour Plum Sauce nutrition & diet

Sour Plum Sauce nutritional value

Reference: Sauce, plum, commercial

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

Calories
229kcal
Protein
0.1g
Carbs
56.5g
Fat
0.8g

Official national food-composition reference. The displayed food form is part of the estimate; cultivar, recipe, brand, processing and preparation can change values.

Portions & preparation

Identify the plums used and the sauce’s preparation, including strained or chunky texture, sweetener, salt, spices, and cooking concentration. Use the served condiment portion rather than the underlying fruit alone. Commercial and homemade versions can differ substantially, so a matching label or recipe is necessary.

Compare the right form: Match the reference to the specific sour-plum sauce recipe or brand, including fruit form, sweetener, concentration, and serving texture.

Diet considerations

Sour plum sauce is plant-derived only when its recipe contains fruit and other plant or mineral ingredients without animal additions. Fish sauce, shrimp paste, meat stock, or other additives change compatibility. Sugar or syrup, thickening cereals, and a larger condiment portion can change the dish’s carbohydrate pattern.

AI-authored reading notes · Awaiting editorial review. Measured values, where available, have a separate source above.

Dietary compatibility

  • Vegan
    Depends on the version
  • Vegetarian
    Depends on the version
  • Pescatarian
    Depends on the version
  • Keto
    Not established
  • Paleo
    Depends on the version
  • Low-carb
    Not established
  • Halal
    Not established
  • Kosher
    Not established
What these diet assessments mean
Vegan · Depends on the version
Check the version or source of: Sugar. Check the refining process and processing aids for the particular producer.
Vegetarian · Depends on the version
Check the version or source of: Sugar. Check the refining process and processing aids for the particular producer.
Pescatarian · Depends on the version
Check the version or source of: Sugar. Check the refining process and processing aids for the particular producer.
Keto · Not established
A defined serving and sourced carbohydrate data are needed before assessing this dietary pattern.
Paleo · Depends on the version
Optional or variable recorded ingredients: Sugar. This profile falls outside the conventional paleo pattern used here (grains and pseudograins, legumes, dairy or refined sugar). Recipes and products can differ.
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 · Not established
Sourcing, processing and any applicable certification have not been verified. A food name alone does not establish kosher status.

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

Reviewed ingredient entryIngredient reference · Preparations vary

AI-generated illustration for visual context. It does not identify a particular product or establish allergen content.

Sources & review

Nutrition reference: Australian Food Composition Database, Release 3 — F008054 ↗. 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.

Last recorded verification: .