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Is Batt's Medium Peri Peri Rub ultra-processed?

25g Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Batt's Medium Peri Peri Rub

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
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Sugar, Salt, Paprika, Tomato, Dried Onion, Dried Garlic, Acid (Citric Acid), Lime Juice, Colour (Caramel), Paprika extract, Black Pepper, Parsley, Anti-caking Agent (Silicon Dioxide), Rapeseed Oil, Coriander, Dried Oregano, Ground Bird Eye Chilli 0.5%, Cayenne Pepper, Cumin, Nutmeg

Additives: E150 Caramel , E160c Paprika extract , E330 Citric acid , E551 Silicon dioxide

As written on the pack

Sugar, Salt, Paprika, Tomato Powder, Dried Onion, Dried Garlic, Acid: Citric Acid, Lime Juice Powder, Colour: (Caramel, Paprika extract), Black Pepper, Dried Parsley, Anti-caking Agent: Silicon Dioxide, Rapeseed Oil, Ground Coriander, Dried Oregano, 0.5% Ground Bird Eye Chilli, Cayenne Pepper, Ground Cumin, Ground Nutmeg.

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.

  • E150 Caramel A food additive authorised for industrial food production.
  • E160c Paprika extract Paprika extract is a red-orange colour extracted from paprika peppers.
  • E551 Silicon dioxide A food additive used to dissolve, dilute, disperse or otherwise physically modify a food additive or nutrient without altering its function -and without exerting any technological effect itself- in order to facilitate its handling, application or use of the food additive or nutrient.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
3 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.

  • Anti-caking agent Anti-caking agents are substances which reduce the tendency of individual particles of a foodstuff to adhere to one another.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 20409296, last edited 19 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.