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Barbecue sauces, from least to most processed

We track 107 barbecue sauces, 86% of them ultra-processed. The least processed is Oven Toasted Old Fashioned Organic Oats.

What makes barbecue sauces ultra-processed

The signs of ultra-processing found most often, and the share of barbecue sauces that contain each:

Unprocessed or minimally processed (2)

  1. 1 Oven Toasted Old Fashioned Organic Oats Trader Joe's · 18 oz (510g) 1
  2. 2 Liquid Smoke Mesquite Wright's · 3.5 fl Oz (103 ml) 1

Processed food (13)

  1. 3 Honey Chipotle BBQ sauce Sauce Shop · 340g 3
  2. 4 Original BBQ Sauce Sauce Shop · 340g 3
  3. 5 Original Bbq Sauce Rib Rack · 19 oz 3
  4. 6 Sauce Shop bbq honey chipotle Sauce Shop 3
  5. 7 American style BBQ sauce roasted garlic Santa Maria · 335 g 3
  6. 8 Unsweetened Barbecue Smokey Classic Hunter & Gather · 350g 3
  7. 9 Fused Teriyaki Fused · 100g 3
  8. 10 Barbecue Sauce Dr. Will's · 250 g 3
  9. 11 Dr wills bbq sauce 3
  10. 12 Coffee BBQ Sauce M&S Food · 315g 3
  11. 13 Japanese Barbecue Sauce Bachan's · 34 oz (864 g) 3
  12. 14 Japanese Barbecue Sauce Muse · 17 oz 3
  13. 15 House BBQ sauce Marks & Spencer · 300g 3

Ultra-processed food (92)

  1. 16 Yo Mama's Classic BBQ sauce Buffalo Wild Wings · 14 oz 4
  2. 17 Sticky Sweet BBQ Sauce Stubb's · 18 oz (510 g) 4
  3. 18 Unsweetened Classic BBQ Sauce Primal Kitchen 4
  4. 19 Organic Kansas City Style BBQ Sauce Trader Joe's · 18 oz 4
  5. 20 Sweet Heat Legendary Bar-B-Q Sauce Stubb's · 18 oz 4
  6. 21 Original BBQ Sauce Bramwells · 480g 4
  7. 22 bbq Santa Maria 4
  8. 23 American BBQ Sauce (Original) Santa Maria · 470 g 4
  9. 24 TERIYAKI WOK SAUCE mit Geröstetem Sesam Kikkoman · 250ml 4
  10. 25 Kansas Style BBQ Sauce Tesco 4
  11. 26 Bull's Eye Heinz · 360g 4
  12. 27 Barbeque Sauce Chick-fil-A 4
  13. 28 BRAMWELLS DARN F FINE TASTE SKEETER'S BBQ Sauce SM Aldi 4
  14. 29 Sriracha and Roasted Garlic BBQ Sauce Trader Joe's 4
  15. 30 Original Sauce A.1. · 10 OZ (283g) 4
  16. 31 Sauce Barbecue Sauce Bold Original Bull's-Eye · 425ml 4
  17. 32 steak sauce HP · 400ml 4
  18. 33 Bbq Sauce Mingle 4
  19. 34 BBQ sauce Heinz · 480g 4
  20. 35 Classic Barbecue Smokey & Rich Heinz · 665 g 4
  21. 36 Heinz Sweet BBQ imp Heinz · 500g 4
  22. 37 classic BBQ sauce Asda 4
  23. 38 American BBQsauce Santa Maria · 505 g 4
  24. 39 BBQ sauce, American style bourbon whiskey Santa Maria · 350 g 4
  25. 40 BBQ Sauce G Hughes · 30 g 4
  26. 41 Reggae Reggae Jerk BBQ Marinade & Sauce Original Levi Roots · 290g 4
  27. 42 Kansas Style BBQ Sauce Batts · 320 g 4
  28. 43 Levi Roots Reggae Reggae Jerk Barbecue Sauce Levi Roots · 330g 4
  29. 44 kinders hickory brown sugar bbq sauce Kinder’s 4
  30. 45 Bbq Sauce Roasted Garlic Kinder's · 439 g 4
  31. 46 BBQ Sauce with a Rich Flavour Wattie's 4
  32. 47 BBQ Sauce Honey Hot Kinder's 4
  33. 48 Red's Unholy Barbecue Sauce Mild Red’s 4
  34. 49 BBQ Sås Orginal Johnny's · 470 g 4
  35. 50 Chili Sauce Heinz · 12 oz (340 g) 4
  36. 51 BBQ Sauce Sainsbury's 4
  37. 52 Daddies Favourite Brown Sauce 4
  38. 53 HP Sauce HP · 450 g 4
  39. 54 Bbq Sauce 4
  40. 55 Dr Will's BBQ Sauce "With Benefits" Holland & Barrett · 275g 4

Showing the first 40 of 92. The narrower categories above, or search, find the rest.

Within each group, products with fewer signs of ultra-processing, additives and ingredients come first. This ordering is ours, for comparison; it is not part of NOVA.