A TikTok user’s homemade condiment known as ‘pink sauce’ spawns concerns

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Chef Pii has sparked an uproar over her “pink sauce.”After selling for less than a month there are a slew of concerns about what it looks like, its taste and labeling errors.To gain buzz for this condiment, Pii posted a TikTok video of her making it in her kitchen, which gained 6.4 million views. “TikTok created the pink sauce,” Pii, who has over 59,000 followers, exclusively told The Post.Immediately the backlash started on the same place it went viral: TikTok.“There are so many errors on this nutritional label, saying 444 servings, which is 14.4 grams [per serving],” user @seansvv stated. “Which makes almost 6,300-something grams in the whole bottle, which is inaccurate.

And if these small details were overlooked, I’m looking at quality control now. I’m kind of scared.”But Pii said the label was a graphic design mistake and will be rectified in the next batch.The sauce’s main ingredient is dragon fruit, which is what gives it its signature pink color, she said.

The other ingredients are sunflower seed oil, white vinegar, salt, raw honey, garlic, dried chili, lemon juice, milk and citric acid, according to the bottle’s label.Another issue was the sauce had different hues of pink and people were upset with a lack of consistency.Pii, who is also a mother of two, is chalking this up to both the batch of dragon fruit she’s using and that consumers are expecting the pink sauce to look exactly like her viral TikTok video.Some addressed concerns that the sauce needed to be refrigerated, which wasn’t printed on the label.

TikToker @seansvv said there weren’t enough preservatives in it for the sauce to just sit out.Pii defended her brand and said, “We did a test on them.