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Is Asia Specialities Hoisin Sauce ultra-processed?

315 g Hoisin sauces Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Asia Specialities Hoisin Sauce

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:

  • 23 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed hoisin sauces

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

2077 1518 hosn style sauce with red miso paste directions for use sewell before use, agredients red miso paste 22%, soya beans, sugar, water, salt, wheat flour (wheat four me garlic powder, paprika, onion, salt, acidity regulators (acetic act citric acid carbonate), iron, niacin, thiamin), glucose-fructose syrup, modified matz-starch, colour pla pantadwe for allergens, mary advice suitable for egetarians, flavourings, preservatives nitration this bottle contains 21 tablespoon sering per (energy 1070kj)

Additives: E502 Carbonates

As written on the pack

2077 1518 hosn style sauce with red miso paste directions for use sewell before use, agredients red miso paste (22%) (soya beans, sugar, water, salt, wheat flour (wheat four me garlic powder, paprika, onion powder, salt, acidity regulators: acetic act citric acid carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), glucose-fructose syrup, modified matz-starch, colour pla pantadwe for allergens, see ingredients in bold, may also contain nuts, peanuts and sesame mary advice suitable for egetarians, no artificial colours, flavourings or preservatives nitration this bottle contains 21 tablespoon sering per 100g: energy 1070kj/

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.

  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.

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.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
2 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.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 15 hoisin sauces

From least to most processed, this one ranks 7th. 87% of the hoisin sauces 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 15 hoisin sauces, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4088600437187, last edited 27 March 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.