Sauce

Sauce is not a marker of ultra-processing. It is one of the markers Open Food Facts uses to classify a food as processed (NOVA group 3).

What it is and why it counts

A prepared sauce used as an ingredient.

Processed ingredients

These are processed foods in their own right (group 3), preserved versions of whole foods, so a product containing them is at least processed.

More about sauce on Wikidata

Where it turns up

Sauce appears in 1,140 of the 40,000 products on this site (3%).

Products containing sauce

Showing the 60 most popular of 1,140.

How the NOVA classification works