Reject any that include ingredients you wouldn't use yourself: spirit vinegar, palm oil or worse.

After the fruit is soaked in spirit vinegar, this is filtered and sugar added.

Like many similar sauces, it has a base of spirit vinegar, coloured with caramel and sweetened.

It is essentially made of water, sugar and spirit vinegar with a selection of spices and colouring.

But now most of the cheaper own-brand Dijons slop in spirit vinegar and citric acid instead.

A combination of spirit vinegar (or water) and brown sauce, known simply as "sauce" or "chippy sauce", is popular on fish and chips.

The term 'spirit vinegar' is sometimes reserved for the stronger variety (5% to 21% acetic acid) made from sugar cane or from chemically produced acetic acid.

Salad cream is a creamy, pale yellow condiment based on an emulsion of about 25-50 percent oil in water, emulsified by egg yolk and acidulated by spirit vinegar.

The essential ingredients are barley malt vinegar, spirit vinegar, molasses, sugar, salt, anchovies, tamarind extract, onions, and garlic; particular brands add other spices as well to taste.

The price of vegetable oil has increased by 30 per cent over the past few months, while the price of spirits vinegar has increased by 18 per cent.

Grate the fresh root into a third of a wine glass of cider or spirit vinegar, keeping the root covered at all times, till the glass is almost two-thirds full.

A steak pie supper is usually accompanied by salt and vinegar; however, around Edinburgh, a combination of spirit vinegar and brown sauce, known simply as "sauce" or "chippie sauce", is popular.

You'd be better off with the roasted goosefish (more commonly known as monkfish or lotte), its firm flesh given new appeal with a spirited vinegar sauce and a side dish of delicious deep-fried shredded cabbage.