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Cranberry sauces, from least to most processed

We track 10 cranberry sauces, 50% of them ultra-processed. The least processed is Smooth Cranberry Sauce.

What makes cranberry sauces ultra-processed

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

Processed food (5)

  1. 1 Smooth Cranberry Sauce Ocean Spray · 200 g 3
  2. 2 Wild Cranberry Sauce Sainsbury's · 220g 3
  3. 3 Whole Cranberry Sauce Ocean Spray 3
  4. 4 Ocean Spray Sauce Cranberry Ocean Spray · 250g 3
  5. 5 Whole cranberry sauce Bramwells - Aldi · 200g 3

Ultra-processed food (5)

  1. 6 Cranberry sauce Waitrose · 305g 4
  2. 7 Cranberry sauce Asda 4
  3. 8 Whole Berry Cranberry Sauce Ocean Spray Cranberries Inc. · 14 oz 4
  4. 9 Jellied Cranberry Sauce Ocean Spray · 14oz 4
  5. 10 Cranberry Sauce Tesco · 200g 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.