The Underrated Storebought Salad Dressing That’s Always in My Fridge

I love homemade salad dressing. I make it frequently from scratch. Chances are, when you open my fridge, you’ll find a jar of anything from Creamy Curry Dressing (which is also a great crudités dip) and herb-packed Green Goddess Dressing to Maple-Balsamic Vinaigrette and Lemon-Garlic Vinaigrette. Dressing is so easy to make; just combine whatever ingredients suit your fancy and shake. 

Yet it can feel so hard to do one more thing at dinnertime some nights. Having a bottle of dressing on hand can really be the difference between having a salad and not. If I’m already cooking dinner and making a salad, I don’t always want to take that extra step to make homemade dressing, you know. And if I’m throwing together a salad for lunch in between meetings on a weekday, I probably don’t have time to make dressing. In times like those, Brianna’s Home Style Real French Vinaigrette Dressing comes to the rescue.

Eating salad is so very good for us. Not only is adding a salad to dinner an easy way to increase your vegetable consumption, one study found that eating salad helped improve metabolism and reduce obesity. And drizzling our salads with a delicious dressing not only makes it taste better, but the fat the dressing contains helps our bodies absorb some nutrients like carotenoids and calcium. 

While some people positively turn up their noses at storebought dressing, I grew up on it. To this day, if you open my parents’ fridge, there are several bottles and jars of salad dressing in there. So I’ve tried plenty of storebought dressings. And when it comes to vinaigrettes, Brianna’s is the best. Many other vinaigrettes I’ve tried have a weird gloppy texture and fake herby flavor. Plus they tend to be much higher in sodium than Brianna’s French Vinaigrette, which has 270 mg per 2-tablespoon serving (one I looked at had twice that).

Plus, did you know that many storebought vinaigrettes have added sugar? As many as 4 grams per 2-tablespoon serving—that’s 1 teaspoon of sugar. On your salad. Most Americans eat too much added sugar each day since it often sneaks into products you would never expect it to be in—including vinaigrettes. Since Brianna’s has no added sugar, it’s vinegary and herby and so delicious.

So if you have turned up your nose at storebought vinaigrettes in the past, I suggest you give Brianna’s a try. You might find yourself keeping a bottle on hand, too, and even eating more salad, which is always a good thing.