Is Hoisin Sauce Syn Friendly On Slimming World? - Our Unofficial Slimming World Syn Guide

If you are planning to cook a Chinese dish tonight or want to spice up your noodles with some hoisin sauce, you might be wondering how many syns Hoisin sauce has on the slimming world plan, is it syn-friendly?

Hoisin sauce has on average around 2.5 syns for a 15ml serving, making it quite high in syns for a small portion, we, therefore, suggest using this sauce in moderation on the plan.

In our syn guide below, we will discuss why Hoisin sauce is so high in syns, syn values of Hoisin sauce and some low syn alternatives for putting in Chinese dishes.

Why Is Hoisin Sauce So High In Syns?

At 2.5 syns for a 15ml serving, Hoisin sauce is quite high in syns, allowing you to have around 90ml before using all of your 15 syn daily allowance on the plan, it's therefore important to measure the amount of this sauce you are using to keep on track with your syns.

Hoisin sauce gets its high syn value from the sugar content in the sauce, having around 30g of sugar in just a 50ml serving.

It's worth noting that Hoisin sauce mixes such as Blue Dragon sauces are often higher in sugar to add to the flavour, we have a syn guide to Blue Dragon sauces here.

Syn Values Of Hoisin Sauce

Hoisin sauce can have varying syns according to the brand, to help you compare syns, we've listed a variety of options below.

• Blue Dragon Rich Hoisin Sauce 190ml - 2.5 syns for 15ml.
•  Blue Dragon Hoisin & Garlic Stir Fry Sauce 120g - 7.5 syns for 100g.
•  Aldi Nature's Pick Hoisin Stir Fry Sauce 175ml - 7 syns for half a pack.
•  Blue Dragon Sweet Chinese Hoisin Sauce 250ml - 1 syn.
•  Asda Hoisin Stir-Fry Sauce 170g - 5 syns.
•  Tesco Hoisin Sauce 290g - 2 syns.
•  Sharwood's Dipping Sauce Hoisin 290g - 6 syns.
•  Sainsbury's Hoisin Sauce 150ml - 2 syns.
•  Aldi Asia Specialties Hoisin Sauce 315g - 2 syns.
•  Sainsbury's Inspired to Cook Plum & Hoisin Stir Fry Sauce 175g - 4.5 syns.
•  Lee Kum Kee Sweet Hoisin Sauce 567g - 0.5 syns.
•  Sainsbury's Hoisin & Garlic Stir Fry Sauce 120g - 3 syns.
•  Co-op Sweet & Aromatic Plum & Hoisin Stir Fry Sauce 150g - 4.5 syns.
•  M&S Hoisin Sauce 150g - 1.5 syns.

Low Syn Alternatives To Hoisin Sauce

If you find Hoisin sauce to be too high in syns, there are lots of other low-syn alternative sauces to use in Chinese cooking which are lower in sugar and still give a great taste.

• Tesco Teriyaki Stir Fry Sauce 180G - 4.5 syns for half.
•  Sharwoods Stir Fry Sauce 30% Less Sugar Sweet Chilli Garlic 120G - 3 syns a serving.
•  Yo! Teriyaki Sweet & Sticky Stir Fry Sauce 100G - 3.5 syns for half.
•  Sharwoods Stir Fry Sauce 30% Less Sugar Sweet & Sour 120G - 3.5 syns.
•  Tesco Chow Mein Stir Fry Sauce 120G - 2.5 syns for half.
•  Sainsbury's Fresh Teriyaki & Ginger Stir Fry Sauce 175ml - 4 syns.
•  Kikkoman Teriyaki Sauce Sesame 250Ml - 5.5 syns.
•  Sharwoods Plum Sauce 300G - 7.5 syns.
•  Thai Dragon Sweet Chilli Sauce 455Ml - 4.5 syns.
•  Bens Original Cantonese Sauce 450G - 4 syns.
•  Tesco Satay Dipping Sauce 180G - 1 syn a tablespoon.
•  Tesco Sweet & Sour Sauce 510G - 4 syns.
•  Tesco Chinese Style Curry Sauce 500G - 3 syns.
•  Sainsbury's Fresh Sweet Chilli Stir Fry Sauce 175ml - 7 syns.
•  Sainsbury's Red Thai Style Stir Fry Sauce 175ml - 5 syns.
•  Tesco Dark Soy Sauce 150Ml - 1 syn a tablespoon.

Final Words

To conclude, Hoisin sauce is quite high in syns for a small portion, just 15ml has 2.5 syns in due to the high sugar content, we, therefore, suggest using the sauce in moderation. You could have up to 90ml of this sauce before using all your 15 syn daily allowance.

For a low syn alternative, we recommend choosing other options like soy sauce, we have a syn guide for this here.