Salsa verde was the preferred salsa by participants in a Mexican survey in 2017, with 30.4 percent of respondents choosing salsa verde as their favorite Mexican salsa. Salsa de jitomate/tomate was also popular, with more than 26 percent of respondents preferring it over other sauces. In 2016, retail sales of sauces, dressings and condiments in Mexico amounted to almost three billion U.S. dollars.
Includes only people that enjoy eating salsa/spontaneous responses
Method of interview
Telephone interview
Supplementary notes
The question was presented as follows:"Which sauce do you prefer to accompany your food with?"
* Salsa made out mainly of husk tomato and green chilies.
** Salsa made out mainly of tomato and red chilies,
*** Homemade salsa made using a "molcajete", a local tool made out of stone.
**** Habanero-based salsa.
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Gabinete de Comunicación Estratégica. (September 25, 2017). Preferred salsas in Mexico in 2017 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved August 25, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1047250/preferred-salsas-mexico/
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