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Is Bumble Bee Original Tuna Salad & Crackers ultra-processed?

3.5 oz (100 g) Tuna salads Sold in the United Kingdom, the United States and Bolivia

Pack of Bumble Bee Original Tuna Salad & Crackers

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:

  • 39 ingredients
  • 7 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed tuna salads

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

tuna salad 82% (tuna (light tuna, water, vegetable broth, salt), mayonnaise (soybean oil, water, eggs, egg yolks, distilled vinegar, salt), celery, soy flour, sugar, carrots, water 2%, glucono delta lactone, dehydrated onion), crackers 18% (enriched wheat flour (flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), canola oil, sunflower oil, sugar, salt 2%, baking soda, monocalcium phosphate, corn syrup, butter (cream, natural flavor), soy lecithin)

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E341 Calcium phosphates , E341i Monocalcium phosphate , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate , E575 Glucono-delta-lactone

As written on the pack

TUNA SALAD 82% [TUNA (LIGHT TUNA, WATER, VEGETABLE BROTH, SALT), MAYONNAISE (SOYBEAN OIL, WATER, EGGS, EGG YOLKS, DISTILLED VINEGAR, SALT), CELERY, TEXTURED SOY FLOUR, SUGAR, CARROTS, 2% WATER, GLUCONO DELTA LACTONE, DEHYDRATED ONION], CRACKERS 18% [ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR (FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), CANOLA OIL, SUNFLOWER OIL, SUGAR, 2% SALT, LEAVENING (BAKING SODA, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE), CORN SYRUP, BUTTER (CREAM, NATURAL FLAVOR), SOY LECITHIN].

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.

  • E322 Lecithins Lecithins are fatty substances extracted mostly from soybeans, sunflower seeds or eggs, used as emulsifiers to keep fat and water mixed, for example in chocolate.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.

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.
  • Soya flour An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.
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.

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
  • Sauce A prepared sauce used as an ingredient.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 14 tuna salads

From least to most processed, this one ranks 13th. 71% of the tuna salads 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 14 tuna salads, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0086600707778, last edited 16 September 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.