Sauces are a staple in most people’s fridges and cupboards. Ketchup is a global favourite, with 650 million bottles of Heinz ketchup alone sold each year and many would consider British favourites, such as tofish and chips or a vegan sausage sarnie, to be incomplete without a sauce of some kind.
Sauces are defined as, “any preparation, usually liquid or semiliquid, eaten as a gravy or as a relish accompanying food” and as, “stewed fruit, often puréed and served as an accompaniment to meat, dessert, or other food: cranberry sauce.”