Salsa: Reviews

Every Day with Rachael Ray: Every Day With Rachael Ray, doesn't indicate its testing methods or identify the losers among the 71 salsas it tried for this article.

ConsumerReports.org: Desert Pepper Trading Co.'s Olive Roasted Garlic is one of eleven salsas rated, and it appears that fresh taste is a major criterion.

Prevention Magazine: Prevention magazine's report suffers from a lack of information about testing methods and doesn't identify the losers.

EatingWell.com: EatingWell uses a six-person panel of "salsa fanatics," to identify six top salsas out of 40 tested.

Slate Magazine: Slate.com's review is honest about its rather informal methodology: a blind taste test of friends done in NCAA basketball tournament bracket style.

HighProgrammer.com: Alan De Smet is a computer software engineer with no apparent credentials as a salsa evaluator, but his opinions seem unbiased.

Cook's Illustrated Magazine: Cook's Illustrated reviewers sample nine salsas, focusing on hot varieties in this brief write-up.

Cook's Illustrated Magazine: Cook's Illustrated considers eight medium and four hot salsas, serving them two different ways: out of the jar and with tortilla chips.

Prevention Magazine: Prevention's "crew," unspecified by size or qualifications, tasted 88 "healthy" salsas.

ConsumerReports.org: Green Mountain Gringo is one of eleven salsas rated at Consumer Reports, and it appears that fresh taste is a major criterion.

Real Simple: Real Simple seems unbiased enough but doesn't describe its testing methods, giving the impression that this one was one was pretty informal.

Cook's Illustrated Magazine: Cook's Illustrated reviewers sample nine salsas, focusing on hot varieties in this brief write-up.

Cook's Illustrated Magazine: In this review, Cook's Illustrated takes on supermarket salsa, taste-testing four mainstream salsas, including Pace Chunky Salsa.

Every Day with Rachael Ray: Every Day With Rachael Ray doesn't really give an indication of its testing methods, and although it says it tested 71 salsas, we don't get to see the also-rans.

EatingWell.com: EatingWell uses a six-person panel to try "more than 40" salsas to arrive at a top six, but it would have been helpful to know who the losers were.

ConsumerReports.org: Consumer Reports generally sets the standard for product testing, but this is a relatively narrow sampling and you need to subscribe to see it.

Ed Levine Eats: Ed Levine is a veteran writer and TV commentator about food, and this was written by Adam Kuban, who is managing editor of Levine's Serious Eats website.

Slate Magazine: Slate is honest about its rather informal methodology -- a blind taste test of friends done in NCAA basketball tournament bracket style.