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Sweet and sour sauces, from least to most processed

We track 17 sweet and sour sauces, 88% of them ultra-processed. The least processed is Sweet & Sour Stir fry Sauce.

What makes sweet and sour sauces ultra-processed

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

Processed food (2)

  1. 1 Sweet & Sour Stir fry Sauce Marks & Spencers · 150g 3
  2. 2 Orange Stir Fry Sauce Burman’s · 14.5 oz 3

Ultra-processed food (15)

  1. 3 Sharwood’s Sweet & Sour Sharwood · 425g 4
  2. 4 Asien Sweet Chili Sauce Coop · 495 ml 4
  3. 5 Sweet Chilli Sauce Lidl 4
  4. 6 Tabasco Sweet & Spicy Sauce Tabasco · 256 ml 4
  5. 7 Sweet and Sour Cooking Sauce Lidl · 500g 4
  6. 8 Sweet & Sour stir fry sauce Blue Dragon · 120 g 4
  7. 9 Sweet & Sour sauce Ben's Original 4
  8. 10 Sweet and sour Ben's 4
  9. 11 Sweet & Sour Ben's 4
  10. 12 SWEET & SOUR COOKING SAUCE Sweet and tangy Chinese Marks & Spencer 4
  11. 13 Sötsur sås med ananas Kania · 500 g / 455 ml 4
  12. 14 Taste O Sweet & Sour Cooking Sauce V Lidl 4
  13. 15 Sharwoods Stir fry souce imp 120 4
  14. 16 Sweet & Sour Cooking Sauce Asia Green Garden · 500 g 4
  15. 17 Sweet & Sour Sauce Tesco · 120g 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.