Got Sriracha? The price for a bottle of Huy Fong’s iconic hot sauce gets spicy with supplies short
, the beloved red hot sauce packaged in those green-capped bottles, isn’t new — with the company pointing to a scarcity of chile pepper supply for several years now. And as frustrated fans continue to face store shelves missing the Huy Fong name, third-party resellers are punching up prices.
Huy Fong told The Associated Press this week that it continues to be beset by shortages of raw materials, echoing a similar scarcity last year when the company temporarilyHuy Fong said Wednesday that “limited production“ resumed recently, although the California company didn’t specify by how much or provide an estimate of when it believes suppliers will be able to deliver an adequate number of peppers.
These peppers are typically grown under irrigation, with a lot of water drawn from the Colorado River — which hasover recent years, Ortega said. The region has suffered insufficient rainfall and reduced run-off from snow pack. “Last year just couldn’t get the jalapeños that they needed,” said Walker, who also specializes in chile pepper breeding. She noted the contrast to other brands’ supply. “It really does come down to relations that individual processors have with their grower base.”
According to Underwood, there has continued to be a steady supply of jalapeño peppers from Mexico. Underwood Ranches, which now sells its own brand of Sriracha, also started producing red jalapeño peppers again this year — in part because of the Huy Fong shortage, he added.PRICES SKYROCKET FROM
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