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Is Abba Senaps Sill ultra-processed?

230 g Pickled herring Sold in Sweden

Pack of Abba Senaps Sill

Yes, it's ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

  • 26 ingredients
  • 8 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed pickled herring

Less processed isn't automatically healthier, so compare the labels for what matters to you, such as sugar or salt.

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

sill, socker, vatten, rapsolja, senap 12% (vatten, SENAPsfrö, socker, ättika, salt, kryddor (bland annat koriander, kanel)), salt, SENAPsfrö, syra (ättiksyra), konserveringsmedel (natriumbensoat, kaliumsorbat), förtjockningsmedel (xantangummi), färgämne (betakaroten, sockerkulör (e150c))

Additives: E150a Plain caramel , E150c Ammonia caramel , E160a Carotene , E160ai Beta-carotene , E202 Potassium sorbate , E211 Sodium benzoate , E260 Acetic acid , E415 Xanthan gum

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E150c Ammonia caramel.

As written on the pack

SILL, socker, vatten, rapsolja, SENAP (12%) (vatten, SENAPsfrö, socker, ättika, salt, kryddor (bl.a. koriander, kanel)), salt, SENAPsfrö, syra (ättiksyra), konserveringsmedel (natriumbensoat, kaliumsorbat), förtjockningsmedel (xantangummi), färgämne (betakaroten, sockerkulör (E150c)).

What makes it ultra-processed

Cosmetic additives

Added to change how the food looks, feels or tastes, not to keep it safe. A hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • E150a Plain caramel Plain caramel is a brown colour made by heating sugars.
  • E150c Ammonia caramel Ammonia caramel is a brown colour made by heating sugars with ammonia compounds.
  • E160a Carotene Carotenes are orange-yellow pigments, either synthesised or extracted from carrots, algae or palm oil.
  • E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.
4 ingredients that would only make it processed

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

  • E202 Potassium sorbate Preservatives are substances which prolong the shelf-life of foods by protecting them against deterioration caused by micro-organisms and/or which protect against growth of pathogenic micro-organisms.
  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 8 pickled herring

From least to most processed, this one ranks 8th. 38% of the pickled herring here are ultra-processed.

Ranked by NOVA group, then by the number of ultra-processing signs, additives and ingredients. Our ordering, not part of NOVA.

All 8 pickled herring, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 7350126081739, last edited 2 April 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
  • Photo: Open Food Facts contributors, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • The NOVA group is an automated estimate from crowdsourced data: a missing or mistyped ingredient can change it.
  • NOVA measures processing, not nutrition. For nutrition, Open Food Facts gives this product a Nutri-Score of E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.