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Salted spreads, from least to most processed

We track 532 salted spreads, 53% of them ultra-processed. The least processed is Meridian Yeast Extract.

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What makes salted spreads ultra-processed

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

Unprocessed or minimally processed (3)

  1. 1 Meridian Yeast Extract Meridian · 340g 1
  2. 2 Hummus Traditional Fontaine Santé · 565 g 1
  3. 3 Moroccan Style Houmous Marks & Spencer · 170g 1

Processed culinary ingredient (22)

  1. 4 Lighter Spreadable Slightly Salted Lurpak · 500g 2
  2. 5 Butterpak Spreadable Tesco · 500g 2
  3. 6 Smör Och Raps Gårdsgoda Valio · 500g 2
  4. 7 Lighter buttersoft spread Sainsbury's 2
  5. 8 Lighter 500 2
  6. 9 Gårdsgoda - Smör & Rapsolja - Normalsaltat Valio · 550 g 2
  7. 10 Bregott Ekologiskt Normalsaltat Arla 2
  8. 11 Bregott Normalsaltat Smör, rapsolja, & en nypa salt Bregott · 600 g 2
  9. 12 Mantequilla con sal marina Arla · 300g 2
  10. 13 Bregott - Normalsaltat Bregott · 500 g 2
  11. 14 Bregott - normalsaltat - Storpack Arla · 750 g 2
  12. 15 Bregott Mellan Arla · 500 g 2
  13. 16 Bregott Smör Mellan Arla 2
  14. 17 Dairy Soft Salt Reduced Devondale · 500g 2
  15. 18 Bregott Extrasaltat Bregott · 500g 2
  16. 19 Bregott Ecologisk Normalsaltat smör och rapsolja Arla 2
  17. 20 Smör & Raps Normalsaltat Coop · 600 g 2
  18. 21 Hummus Roasted Red Pepper Fontaine Santé · 454 g 2
  19. 22 Hummus Roasted Garlic Aioli Farmers Garden · 260 g 2
  20. 23 Bregott Brynt Arla · 300 g 2
  21. 24 Bregott Matfettsblandning Laktosfri 75% 2
  22. 25 Bregott från växtriket Arla · 350 g 2

Processed food (225)

  1. 26 Soft Cheese Tesco · 200g 3
  2. 27 Low Fat Cottage Cheese Lidl · 300 g 3
  3. 28 lighter SOFT CHEESE Sainsbury's · 250g 3
  4. 29 Cream Cheese Paysan Breton · 150 g 3
  5. 30 Original Creamy Soft Cheese Asda · 200g 3
  6. 31 Cottage cheese Tesco 3
  7. 32 Soft Cheese Arla Lacto Free · 200 g 3
  8. 33 Light Original Soft Cheese Asda · 200g 3
  9. 34 Spalmabile - Light Milbona - Lidl · 300 g 3
  10. 35 Low Fat Cottage Cheese Graham's · 300g 3
  11. 36 Yeast extract Essential Yeast Extract · 250g 3
  12. 37 Low Fat Cottage Cheese Co-op · 300g 3
  13. 38 Cottage Cheese Pure & Natural Daisy · 16oz (454g) 3
  14. 39 Natural Cottage Cheese Sainsbury's 3
  15. 40 Creamy Cottage Cheese M&S Food · 300 g 3
  16. 41 Cottage Cheese Graham's · 300g 3
  17. 42 Creamy Artichoke Sauce Plants by Deliciously Ella 3
  18. 43 Cottage Cheese Organic High Protein East Coast by Barambah Organics Dairy 3
  19. 44 homemade taramasalata 225g 3
  20. 45 ICA Färskost naturell ICA · 125 g 3
  21. 46 Cottage Cheese with Onion & Chives Marks & Spencer 3
  22. 47 Milbona Soft Cheese free from lactose AF Deutschland · 200 g 3
  23. 48 Boursin portions garlic & herbs Boursin · 96 g (6 x 16 g) 3
  24. 49 50% Reduced Fat Garlic & Herb Soft Cheese Tesco 3
  25. 50 Yeast extract reduced salt savoury spread Natex · 225 g 3
  26. 51 Nduja Delizie di Calabria · 180 g 3
  27. 52 Yeast extract Tesco · 225g 3
  28. 53 Naturell Mandel&Havre Philadelphia · 145 g 3
  29. 54 Yeast extract Morrisons · 240g 3
  30. 55 Classic Houmous The Galway Kitchen · 200g 3
  31. 56 Hummus Gourmet The Hummus House · 200 g 3
  32. 57 Mighty Yeast Extract with added vitamins Grandessa · 240g 3
  33. 58 Organic Hummus Kirkland Signature · 71 g 3
  34. 59 Hummus (inferred) Fontaine Sainte · 2 x 565 g 3
  35. 60 Smoked Homous Waitrose 3
  36. 61 Classic Organic Hommus Hannah · 2 LB (907 g) 3
  37. 62 Original Hummus Summer Fresh · 227g 3
  38. 63 Classic houmous Dunnes Stores 3
  39. 64 Rigotta I Am Nut Ok · 140g 3
  40. 65 Organic Houmous Sainsbury's · 200 g 3

Showing the first 40 of 225. The narrower categories above, or search, find the rest.

Ultra-processed food (282)

  1. 251 Heavenly Buttery VitaDor 4
  2. 252 Soft Cheese Stamford Street Co. · 200g 4
  3. 253 Cottage Cheese High Protein Dairly · 200 g 4
  4. 254 Marmite truffle Unilever · 250g 4
  5. 255 Cantadou Paprika och chili Cantadou · 125 g 4
  6. 256 Marmite Yeast Extract Marmite · 500g 4
  7. 257 Marmite Reduced Salt Marmite · 250 g 4
  8. 258 marmite 250g 4
  9. 259 Marmite XO Yeast Extract Marmite · 250g 4
  10. 260 Cheese Spread herbs Milbona · 200 g 4
  11. 261 Dairy Free Sunflower Spread Bell’s Healthcare · 500g 4
  12. 262 Tapenade Classico Garant · 200 g 4
  13. 263 Marmite cheese Marmite · 5 x 15 g 4
  14. 264 Truffle Houmous N 1 Waitrose 4
  15. 265 Full Fat Soft Cheese Milbona · 200 g 4
  16. 266 Original Dairygold · 454 g 4
  17. 267 Cottage Cheese Great Value · 750g 4
  18. 268 Supreme Cream Cheese Violife · 7.05 oz, 200 g 4
  19. 269 Supreme Creamy Violife · 200 g 4
  20. 270 Red Pepper Houmous Marks & Spencers · 200g 4
  21. 271 Hummus Classic Mezete · 215 g, 7.5 oz 4
  22. 272 Classic Hommus Dip Coles · 200 g 4
  23. 273 Roasted Red Pepper Hummus Sabra · 28 g 4
  24. 274 Red pepper houmus Waitrose · 200g 4
  25. 275 Leverpastej - Mustig och Smakrik Pastejköket · 200g 4
  26. 276 HUMMUS CHIPS with rich TOMATO and aromatic BASIL flavour Eat real · 45 g 4
  27. 277 Lönneberga Bredbar Leverpastej Original Lönneberga · 200 g 4
  28. 278 Full fat soft cheese Philadelphia · 165g 4
  29. 279 Protein Cream Cheese Philadelphia · pot 165g 4
  30. 280 Philadelphia mini Philadelphia · 140 g 4
  31. 281 Lightest Philadelphia · 180 g 4
  32. 282 Original Philadelphia · 180 g 4
  33. 283 Philadelphia Original Philadelphia 4
  34. 284 Garlic Hummus Simply Nature · 8 oz 4
  35. 285 Hummus original Simple Truth Organic 4
  36. 286 creamy dreamy HUMMUS Trader Joe's · .8 oz 4
  37. 287 Roasted Garlic Hummus Trader Joe's · 8 oz 4
  38. 288 Traditional Hummus Boar's Head · 28 g 4
  39. 289 Margarine Becel · 1.22 kg 4
  40. 290 Organic Original Hommus Cedar's · 280g 4

Showing the first 40 of 282. The narrower categories above, or search, find the rest.

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.