Is Bang Bang Sriracha Chilli Sauce ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 21 ingredients
- No additives
- Nutri-Score E
Less processed sriracha sauces
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
water 28.9%, red chilli 28%, sugar (processing marker) 25%, garlic 7%, salt (processing marker) 5%, stabilizer 4.4% (xanthan gum), thickener (ultra-processing marker) 1% (modified corn starch (ultra-processing marker)), acidity regulator 0.55% (acetic acid), preservative (processing marker) 0.1% (sodium benzoate), natural colour (ultra-processing marker) (paprika oleoresin), no artificial colours akohlico product kohlico house 0.05%, ha7 3dp, uk www.kohlico.com storage (store in cool dry place, for best before end), product of thailand see on bottle
As written on the pack
water 28.90%, red chilli 28%, sugar 25%, garlic 7%, salt 5%, stabilizer (xanthan gum) 4.40%, thickener (modified corn starch) 1%, acidity regulator (acetic acid) 0.55%, preservative (sodium benzoate) 0.10%, natural colour (paprika oleoresin) 0.05% no artificial colours akohlico product kohlico house, ha7 3dp, uk www.kohlico.com storage: store in cool dry place. for best before end: product of thailand see on bottle
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.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
- Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
- 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.
Among 21 sriracha sauces
From least to most processed, this one ranks 17th. 71% of the sriracha sauces here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5023751600027, 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.