As a sauce, the cranberries are kept whole and are cooked down, but as a relish the cranberries are chopped.u003cbr/u003eWith the traditional sauce, the cranberries are cooked, but the cranberry orange relish uses the cranberries raw.u003cbr/u003eCranberry orange sauce is sweet from the additional added sugar, but the relish is more tart as it uses less sugar.