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Is Blue Dragon Teriyaki Sauce ultra-processed?

Teriyaki sauces Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Blue Dragon Teriyaki 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:

  • 16 ingredients
  • 2 additives

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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

anese style sauce made with soy sauce dlents (water), soy sauce 25% (watar, bop iat flour, salt), glucose-fructose syrup, sugar, thicka ted maize starch, xanthan gum, salt, colour (plat mel), acidity regulator (acetic acid), preservative m benzoate) ble for vegetori

Additives: E260 Acetic acid , E415 Xanthan gum

As written on the pack

anese style sauce made with soy sauce dlents: water, soy sauce extract (25%) [watar, bop iat flour, salt], glucose-fructose syrup, sugar, thicka ted maize starch, xanthan gum), salt, colour (plat mel), acidity regulator (acetic acid), preservative m benzoate) ble for vegetori

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.

  • 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.

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.
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.

  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Sauce A prepared sauce used as an ingredient.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 22 teriyaki sauces

From least to most processed, this one ranks 19th. 64% of the teriyaki 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 22 teriyaki sauces, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5010338000011, 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.
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.