Best Whataburger Sauces, Ranked: What to Pair With Each Item

Our ranking

This is our ranking of Whataburger's sandwich sauces by how well they work on the menu, with each sauce's calories per serving, taken from Whataburger's own part list:

• 1. Creamy Pepper (60 cal): the sauce on the Patty Melt and the Avocado Bacon Burger.
• 2. Honey BBQ (60 cal): sweet and smoky, on the Honey BBQ Chicken Strip Sandwich.
• 3. Sweet & Spicy (20 cal): the sauce on the Sweet & Spicy Bacon Burger and a wing flavor.
• 4. Blaze Sauce (25 cal): the hot sauce on the Bacon Blaze line.
• 5. Mustard (15 cal): the classic on the #1.
• 6. Ranch (60 cal): with wings and the Big Ranch Wrap.
• 7. WhataSauce (30 cal): Whataburger's house sauce.
• 8. Buffalo (0 cal): on the 9-piece WhataWings.

Rankings are our opinion, based on how many items each sauce suits; the calories are Whataburger's own figures.

Lightest sauces

Buffalo is 0 calories, mustard and ketchup 15 each, and Sweet & Spicy 20. If you are counting calories, these change a burger the least. Creamy Pepper, Honey BBQ and ranch are 60 each, and mayonnaise 50.

Best sauce for each item

• #1 Whataburger: keep the mustard, or try Creamy Pepper.
• Fries: Spicy Ketchup.
• Strips: Honey BBQ or Honey Butter.
• Wings: Buffalo with ranch, the way the 9-piece comes.

Dipping cups for wings

Wing bundles come with bigger dipping cups: Buttermilk Ranch is 490 calories a cup, Jalapeño Ranch 560, Honey Butter 440, Honey BBQ 180 and Buffalo 60. The creamy dips are the heavy ones; Buffalo is the lightest by far. See WhataWings bundles.

Spicy Ketchup

Not a sandwich sauce, but the condiment Whataburger is best known for: Fancy Ketchup with red jalapeño purée. Details on Whataburger Spicy Ketchup.

More on sauces

Every sauce with calories, dipping cups for wing bundles and which cost extra is on Whataburger sauces and condiments. Whether extra sauce costs anything is on does Whataburger charge for sauce, and totals for a full order on the calorie calculator.