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Joe Rogan, after watching a Flavor God video, checked his own garlic salt and…

2026-08-08 · 07:43 UTC ·@newstart_2024 ·1 min read

Brief

Joe Rogan discovered—after watching a Flavor God video—that a common jar of garlic salt in his kitchen listed sugar as the third or fourth ingredient despite years of using it on eggs. The post claims several major brands still add sugar, notes pure salt-and-garlic alternatives are uncommon, and urges skepticism toward spice labels and the food system.

Why it matters

Joe Rogan, after watching a Flavor God video, checked his own garlic salt and found sugar listed as the third or fourth ingredient; he had been pouring it on his eggs for years without noticing.

Key details

  • Several major garlic-salt brands still list sugar in their ingredient lists; pure garlic-salt products (just salt and garlic) exist but are not what most shoppers grab off the shelf.
  • The author stopped trusting spice jars years ago and now reads every label 'like it’s trying to get away with something,' arguing hidden sugar in basic pantry items shows how little trust the food system earns and disproportionately risks people who must avoid sugar.
Source evidence

Joe Rogan once checked the garlic salt in his own kitchen and found sugar listed as the third or fourth ingredient.

After watching a Flavor God video that showed sugar in a regular green-cap garlic salt, he went home, picked up his own jar, and saw the exact same thing. He’d been pouring it on his eggs for years without a clue.

Regardless of how many times I hear stories like this, I somehow still find myself surprised. We treat the simplest pantry items like they’re pure, just salt and garlic. Nothing else. Yet some of the biggest brands still slip sugar in as a cheap filler, and most people never look because why would you?

It shows how little trust the food system actually earns. If sugar can hide in something this basic, the rest of the labels are probably doing the same thing in quieter ways. The people who need to avoid it the most are usually the last ones who expect to find it there.

I stopped trusting any spice jar years ago. Now I read every label like it’s trying to get away with something. Because a lot of the time, it is.

Note: The claim holds up. Several major brands of garlic salt still list sugar in the ingredients. Pure versions that are just salt and garlic exist, but they’re not what most people grab off the shelf.

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