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Is Batts Lemon & Herb Peri Peri Sauce ultra-processed?

250 g Hot sauces Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Batts Lemon & Herb Peri Peri 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:

  • 30 ingredients
  • 5 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

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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

trb per 20g ghergy 1% ence intake, ence intake lemon, herb peri peri sauce ingredients water, glucose-fructose syrup, rapeseed oil, white wine vinegar, onion, salt, acidity regulator (acetic acid), garlic purée (water, dried garlic, acidity regulator (citric acid)), lemon comminute 1%, modified potato starch, cayenne chilli, parsley, paprika, dried garlic, dried onion, preservative (potassium sorbate), stabiliser (xanthan gum), birds eye chilli, colour (paprika extract), average adult

Additives: E160c Paprika extract , E202 Potassium sorbate , E260 Acetic acid , E330 Citric acid , E415 Xanthan gum

As written on the pack

trb per 20g ghergy 1% ence intake, ence intake lemon , herb peri peri sauce ingredients water, glucose-fructose syrup, rapeseed oil, white wine vinegar, onion purée, salt, acidity regulator: acetic acid: garlic purée (water, dried garlic, acidity regulator: citric acid), 1% lemon comminute, modified potato starch, cayenne chilli, parsley, paprika, dried garlic, dried onion, preservative: potassium sorbate, stabiliser: xanthan gum, birds eye chilli, colour: paprika extract, average adult

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.

  • E160c Paprika extract Paprika extract is a red-orange colour extracted from paprika peppers.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn 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.

  • 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.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 185 hot sauces

From least to most processed, this one ranks 179th. 70% of the hot 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 185 hot sauces, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4056489823896, last edited 19 May 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.