Is it ultra-processed?
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Cooking Sauces, from least to most processed

We track 36 cooking Sauces, 67% of them ultra-processed. The least processed is Sweet & Sour Cooking Sauce.

What makes cooking Sauces ultra-processed

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

Unprocessed or minimally processed (2)

  1. 1 Sweet & Sour Cooking Sauce Tesco · 510 g 1
  2. 2 Sweet and Sour Sauce Marks & Spencer · 340 g 1

Processed food (10)

  1. 3 Arrabbiata pasta sauce Filippo Berio · 340 g 3
  2. 4 Tomato & Chilli Sauce Loyd Grossman · 350 g 3
  3. 5 Stir Fry Sweet Soy, Ginger & Garlic M&s Food · 150 g 3
  4. 6 Indonesian Peanut Satay The Spice Taylor · 275 g 3
  5. 7 Jamaican jerk seasoning Dunn’s River · 300g 3
  6. 8 Bolognese origional Lloyd Grossman · 660g 3
  7. 9 Tikka Masala Cooking Sauce Gymkhana 3
  8. 10 Miso paste Sainsburys · 100g 3
  9. 11 Green Thai curry paste Bart · 90g 3
  10. 12 Spicy balti Sainsbury's 3

Ultra-processed food (24)

  1. 13 Spanish Style One Pan Sauce Chicken Tonight · 500g 4
  2. 14 Tikka Masala Cooking Sauce Kohinoor · 375 g 4
  3. 15 Asda spicy Tomato Asda 4
  4. 16 Sausage Casserole Recipe Mix Colman's · 39 g 4
  5. 17 mild chilli cooking sauce Asda 4
  6. 18 Sharwood's bhuna Sharwood's 4
  7. 19 Curry Sauce Patak's · 450 g 4
  8. 20 Tikka Masala Cooking Sauce Potts · 300g 4
  9. 21 Jalfrezi Cooking Sauce Tesco 4
  10. 22 Barilla pesto rosso ALDI Barilla · 200 g 4
  11. 23 Chinese Style Stir Fry Sauce Sainsbury's 4
  12. 24 Black bean and red pepper Sharwoods · 425gr 4
  13. 25 SAUCE FOR CHILLI CON CARNE by Sainsbury's MILD MAT Sainsbury's · 500g 4
  14. 26 PASTA BAKE Creamy Tomato Baresa · 500g 4
  15. 27 Tesco Tikka Masala Cooking Sauce 500G Tesco · 500 g 4
  16. 28 Red Thai Curry Paste Potts · 200g 4
  17. 29 Sweet and sour Ben's 4
  18. 30 Honey and Mustard One Pan Sauce Chicken Tonight · 500g 4
  19. 31 Sharwoods Stir fry souce imp 120 4
  20. 32 Street Kitchen Kung Pao Chicken Asian Stir-Fry Kit Street Kitchen · 255g 4
  21. 33 Fajitas cooking sauce Old El Paso 4
  22. 34 kung Po sauce Sharwood's · 425g 4
  23. 35 Malaysian Peanut Satay Street Kitchen · 255g 4
  24. 36 Balti 2 Step Cooking Sauce Lidl · 360 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.