Is Bramwells Lighter than Light Mayo ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 20 ingredients
- 6 additives
- Nutri-Score C
Less processed light mayonnaises
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Water, Spirit Vinegar, Modified Maize Starch (ultra-processing marker), Rapeseed Oil, Sugar (processing marker), free range egg yolk 2%, Salt (processing marker), Skimmed Milk Powder (processing marker), Thickener (ultra-processing marker) (Xanthan Gum (ultra-processing marker)), Lime Juice, Preservative (processing marker) (Potassium Sorbate (processing marker)), Acid (Citric Acid), Acidity Regulator (Sodium Acetate), Flavouring (ultra-processing marker), Antioxidant (Calcium Disodium EDTA)
Additives: E202 Potassium sorbate , E262 Sodium acetates , E262i Sodium acetate , E330 Citric acid , E385 Calcium disodium ethylenediaminetetraacetate , E415 Xanthan gum
As written on the pack
Water, Spirit Vinegar, Modified Maize Starch, Rapeseed Oil, Sugar, FREE RANGE EGG YOLK (2%), Salt, Skimmed Milk Powder, Thickener: Xanthan Gum; Concentrated Lime Juice, Preservative: Potassium Sorbate; Acid: Citric Acid; Acidity Regulator: Sodium Acetate; Flavouring (contains Mustard), Antioxidant: Calcium Disodium EDTA.
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.
- Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
- 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.
6 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.
- Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
- Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.
Among 23 light mayonnaises
From least to most processed, this one ranks 14th. 91% of the light mayonnaises here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4061463483560, last edited 15 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 C (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.