Is American Style Burger Sauce imp ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 26 ingredients
- 4 additives
- Nutri-Score E
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
sunflower oil (processing marker), water, spirit vinegar, concentrated tomato puree, sugar (processing marker), glucose-fructose syrup (ultra-processing marker), egg yolk, salt (processing marker), modified starch (ultra-processing marker), worcester sauce (processing marker) (barley malt vinegar, molasses (processing marker), invert sugar syrup (ultra-processing marker), water, onion, salt (processing marker), tamarind, garlic, spices, lemon oil), mustard powder, thickeners canthan gum, guar gum (ultra-processing marker), flavourings (ultra-processing marker), riboflavin (ultra-processing marker), spice extract storage
Additives: E101 Riboflavin , E101i Riboflavin , E14XX Modified Starch , E412 Guar gum
As written on the pack
sunflower oil, water, spirit vinegar, concentrated tomato puree, sugar, glucose - fructose syrup, egg yolk, salt, modified starch, worcester sauce (barley malt vinegar, molasses, invert sugar syrup, water, onion, salt, tamarind extract, garlic, spices, lemon oil), mustard powder, thickeners canthan gum, guar gum), flavourings, colour (riboflavin), spice extract storage:
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.
- E101 Riboflavin Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
- E14xx Modified Starch Modified starches (E1400 to E1452) are starches treated physically, with enzymes or chemically so that they thicken and hold up to heating, freezing or acidity better than ordinary starch.
- E412 Guar gum Guar gum is a thickener ground from the seeds of the guar plant.
- Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
- Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.
Substances rarely used in home kitchens
Refined or extracted in factories, such as syrups made from starch or isolated proteins. The other hallmark of ultra-processed food.
- Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
- Invert sugar Invert sugar is ordinary sugar split into glucose and fructose with acid or enzymes.
- Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
5 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.
- Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
- Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
- Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
- Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
- Sauce A prepared sauce used as an ingredient.
Among 23 burger sauces
From least to most processed, this one ranks 20th. 91% of the burger sauces here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 50157471, last edited 26 August 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.