On Sun, 7 Jul 2019 04:08:57 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Saturday, July 6, 2019 at 10:47:17 PM UTC-4, Bruce wrote:
>> On Sat, 06 Jul 2019 21:41:34 -0500, "cshenk" > wrote:
>>
>> >Careful on 'fish sauce' folks, though ds1 probably gets it's not
>> >'shoyu' many other countries get confused between 'sauce made from
>> >fish' and 'sauce used on fish'.
>> >
>> >Tiparos is a decent honest brand for Patis (fish sauce).
>>
>> Ingredients: Water, Anchovy (Fish) Extract (65%), Salt, Sugar.
>> <https://www.wingyip.com/tiparos-fish-sauce-700ml.html>
>>
>> Those aren't bad ingredients, but I don't get it. I thought
>> ingredients were listed in order of percentage. So there's more water
>> in the sauce than the 65% anchovy extract?
>
>Perhaps it's an indication of the protein content of the extract, or
>the level to which the extract was concentrated.
>
>There seems to be a positive correlation between a fish sauce's protein
>content and its quality.

Maybe, but that would be an unusual way of listing ingredients.