Sell from home — by food
Acidified sauces can qualify in states that allow acidified foods with pH controls, but Florida expressly excludes hot sauce, salsa, BBQ sauce, ketchup and mustard from cottage food. California allows vinegar and mustard on its CFO list but not general salsas/sauces.
8 of 51 state frameworks cover sauces and salsas for home sellers.
Salsa, hot sauce, BBQ sauce, ketchup, mustard
Alaska · Arizona · Minnesota · Nebraska · Oklahoma · Tennessee · Texas · Wyoming
Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin. In these states the legal doors are a shared kitchen or a permitted space — the food itself is fine; the home kitchen is the issue.
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Sources: The 51-jurisdiction home-food dataset on this site (state frameworks named on each state page). Dataset checked October 23, 2026. Where a fee or rule is set by a county or city, this page says so instead of guessing a number.