Over his lifetime, founder Mike Guajardo suffered from migraines; at times often debilitating. After 40 years of trying to figure out their triggers, Mike discovered they were caused by a food allergy to fresh and dried onions (cooked onions were fine)! As an avid lover of salsas and pico de gallos, Mike refused to give up eating them and instead focused on creating a cooked salsa full of flavor that would not trigger his food allergies and the Five Pepper Sweet Salsa was born!

 

In the beginning, Mike kept the salsa private for his own use, but over time, enough people loved the salsa and asked to buy it, fueling a demand that continues to grow. Today, Guajardo’s Salsa is concentrating on growing the hand batch sales of the Five Pepper Sweet Salsa and the company.