Is it ultra-processed?
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Brown sauces, from least to most processed

We track 19 brown sauces, 89% of them ultra-processed. The least processed is Spicy Breakfast Sauce.

What makes brown sauces ultra-processed

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

Processed food (2)

  1. 1 Spicy Breakfast Sauce Sauce Shop · 320g 3
  2. 2 Brown sauce Stokes 3

Ultra-processed food (17)

  1. 3 Brown sauce Tesco · 435 g / 400 ml 4
  2. 4 Brown sauce Sainsbury's 4
  3. 5 Brown Sauce Marks & Spencers · 493 g 4
  4. 6 Daddies Favourite Brown Sauce Tesco · 400g 4
  5. 7 steak sauce HP · 400ml 4
  6. 8 Original HP Sauce HP Foods · 285 g 4
  7. 9 Brown Sauce Morrisons 4
  8. 10 Brown Sauce Sainsbury's basics · 450 g 4
  9. 11 Brown Sauce Lidl · 450 g 4
  10. 12 Brown Sauce Bramwells · 455 g 4
  11. 13 Daddies Favourite Brown Sauce 4
  12. 14 HP Sauce HP · 450 g 4
  13. 15 Original HP Sauce HP · 425g 4
  14. 16 fruity imp Hp · 470 4
  15. 17 HP Reduced Salt & Sugar Sauce HP · 450g 4
  16. 18 The Original HP Sauce HP · 390 ml 4
  17. 19 Brown sauce Just Essentials by Asda · 460 g 4

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.