Pepper sauces, from least to most processed

We track 11 pepper sauces, 55% of them ultra-processed. The least processed is 16000085 Tabasco Pepper Sauce.

What makes pepper sauces ultra-processed

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

Processed food (5)

  1. 1 16000085 Tabasco Pepper Sauce Mc. Ilhenny Co. · 60ml NOVA group 3
  2. 2 Tabasco sauce pepper red McIlhenny Company · 60 ml NOVA group 3
  3. 3 Sweet Red Pepper Sauce Plants by Deliciously Ella NOVA group 3
  4. 4 Chipotle Peppers in Adobo Sauce Embasa · 198unknown NOVA group 3
  5. 5 Peppercorn Sauce M&S Foods · 180g NOVA group 3

Ultra-processed food (6)

  1. 6 Pineapple Habanero Sauce Shop NOVA group 4
  2. 7 Peppercorn sauce Marks & Spencer · 200 g NOVA group 4
  3. 8 Eriks Pepparsås Oluf Lorentzen As NOVA group 4
  4. 9 Pepparsås Farmers & Chefs NOVA group 4
  5. 10 Pepper Sauce Colman's NOVA group 4
  6. 11 Creamy mild peppercorn sauce Schwartz · 25 g NOVA group 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.