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Dessert sauces, from least to most processed

We track 67 dessert sauces, 84% of them ultra-processed. The least processed is Pineapple Sauce.

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What makes dessert sauces ultra-processed

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

Unprocessed or minimally processed (3)

  1. 1 Pineapple Sauce Golden Farms 1
  2. 2 Strawberry jam Forest Bounty · 340 g 1
  3. 3 Apple Strawberry GoGo Squeez · 4 x 90 g 1

Processed food (8)

  1. 4 Hard set chocolate topping Woolworths · 220 g 3
  2. 5 Raspberry coulis Marks & Spencer · 260g 3
  3. 6 Raw Cacao Chocolate Sauce Broma 3
  4. 7 Premium chocolate sauce Ghirardelli · 16 oz 3
  5. 8 Madagascan vanilla custard Waitrose 3
  6. 9 Fresh vanilla custard 500 g 3
  7. 10 Crackin Chocolate Askeys · 225g 3
  8. 11 Passionfruit in Sweetened Syrup Tasti · 1.2kg 3

Ultra-processed food (56)

  1. 12 Chocolate Sauce Topping Askeys · 325 g 4
  2. 13 Choc Shot Sweet Freedom · 320g 4
  3. 14 Choc Shot Raspberry 4
  4. 15 Madagascan Vanilla Custard Sainsbury's Taste the Difference · 500 gm 4
  5. 16 Custard Tesco · 500g 4
  6. 17 Simply 5 Syrup Hershey's · 21.8 oz 4
  7. 18 Klassisk Vaniljsås Arla · 5 dl 4
  8. 19 Mango and passionfruit coulis Sainsbury's 4
  9. 20 Raspberry coulis Sainsbury's Taste the Difference 4
  10. 21 Original Custard powder Bird's · 350 g 4
  11. 22 Jordgubbskräm 1 liter ICA · 1 liter 4
  12. 23 Bird's Custard Power Bird's · 300 g 4
  13. 24 Sticky Toffee Sauce Askeys · 325 g 4
  14. 25 Custard powder 4
  15. 26 White Chocolate Sauce No Gmos Torani · 16.5 oz 4
  16. 27 Ice Magic Chocolate Flavoured Ice Cream Coating Cottee's · 220 g 4
  17. 28 WeiKFiELD Weikfield · 100 4
  18. 29 Puremade Sauce Dark Chocolate Torani · 16.5 oz, 468 g 4
  19. 30 Kolasås O'hoy · 350g 4
  20. 31 Treat strawberry Askeys 4
  21. 32 Custard Essential Waitrose 4
  22. 33 Custard Powder - Smooth & Creamy - Vanilla Foster Clarks · 350g 4
  23. 34 Vanilla custard The Coconut Collaborative · 400 g 4
  24. 35 Custard cream 500 g 4
  25. 36 Vanilla custard Pauls · 600 g 4
  26. 37 Custard Dessert Menu · 500g 4
  27. 38 Choco sauce Dr. Oetker · 200 g 4
  28. 39 TESCO *REDUCED FAT CUSTARD SILKY & CREAMY Enjoy po Tesco 4
  29. 40 Custard Co-op 4
  30. 41 Custard 385 g 4
  31. 42 Custard tard Sainsbury's 4
  32. 43 Custard Lidl · 1 kg 4
  33. 44 Vaniljsås Valio · 500 g 4
  34. 45 TESCO FRESH CUSTARD BRITISH CREAM Milk and cream g Tesco’s 4
  35. 46 Custard Delicious Desserts · 500g 4
  36. 47 Custard Asda · 500g 4
  37. 48 Vanilla Custard Müller 4
  38. 49 custard Ambrosia 4
  39. 50 Devon custard light Ambrosia · 500g 4
  40. 51 My mini custard Ambrosia · 6 x 55 g 4

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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.