Is Chef Select American Style BBQ Salad Southern Style ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 29 ingredients
- 5 additives
- Nutri-Score C
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Kokt pasta 45% (vatten, durumvete, ägg, salt (processing marker)), rapsolja, paprika 11%, vatten, tomat, socker (processing marker), grädde, vit balsamvinäger (vitvinsvinäger, druvmustkoncentrat), fänkål 2%, salt (processing marker), ättiksprit, äggula, koncentrerad tomatpuré, modifierad stärkelse (ultra-processing marker), lök, örtkryddor, purjolök, kryddor, chili, guarkärnmjöl (ultra-processing marker), xantangummi (ultra-processing marker), natriumacetater, kaliumsorbat (processing marker)
Additives: E14XX Modified Starch , E202 Potassium sorbate , E262 Sodium acetates , E412 Guar gum , E415 Xanthan gum
As written on the pack
Kokt pasta 45 % (vatten, durumvete, ägg, salt), rapsolja, paprika 11 %, vatten, tomat, socker, pastöriserad grädde, vit balsamvinäger (vitvinsvinäger (innehåller sulfit), druvmustkoncentrat), fänkål 2 %, salt, ättiksprit, äggula, koncentrerad tomatpuré, modifierad stärkelse, lök, örtkryddor, purjolök, kryddor, chili, förtjockningsmedel (guarkärnmjöl, xantangummi), surhetsreglerande medel (natriumacetater), konserveringsmedel (kaliumsorbat).
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.
- E14xx Modified Starch Modified starches (E1400 to E1452) are starches treated physically, with enzymes or chemically so that they thicken and hold up to heating, freezing or acidity better than ordinary starch.
- E412 Guar gum Guar gum is a thickener ground from the seeds of the guar plant.
- E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
- 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.
5 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.
- Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
- 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.
Among 42 pasta salads
From least to most processed, this one ranks 34th. 60% of the pasta salads here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 20684402, last edited 27 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 C (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.