Hot sauce typically consists of chili peppers, vinegar, and salt, sometimes accompanied by other spices. Chili sauce, meanwhile, often has a more complex recipe, which can include ingredients like tomatoes, garlic, sugar, and various spices.
Paprika is made by grinding dried red peppers from the Capsicum annuum family. These peppers can be sweet (like bell pepper) or spicy (like chili pepper). Different varieties of paprika use different types of peppers, as well as various parts of the plant.


Apart from adding spiciness and heat to the recipe, hot paprika will also act as a colorant to make your dish or sauce look more appetizing.


Chili powders come in at between 500 and 1,500 Scoville units. That's enough to produce a mild burn, but not enough to make really spicy foods.