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Is Chicken Tonight Honey and Mustard One Pan Sauce ultra-processed?

500g Cooking Sauces Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Chicken Tonight Honey and Mustard One Pan 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:

  • 26 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score E

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Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

water, carrots 10%, sugar, Dijon mustard 6.4% (water, mustard seed, spirit vinegar, salt, flavouring), onions 5.1%, rapeseed oil, vinegar, honey 3.5%, modified maize starch, cream (from milk), onion, salt, yeast extract, pasteurised egg yolk, garlic, stabiliser (xanthan gum), ginger, parsley, not suitable for celery allergy sufferers due to manufacturing methods

Additives: E415 Xanthan gum

As written on the pack

water, carrots (10%), sugar, Dijon mustard (6,4%) [water, mustard seed, spirit vinegar, salt, flavouring], onions (5,1%), rapeseed oil, vinegar, honey (3,5%), modified maize starch, cream (from milk), onion powder, salt, yeast extract, pasteurised egg yolk, garlic, stabiliser (xanthan gum), ginger, parsley. not suitable for celery allergy sufferers due to manufacturing methods.

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.
  • 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.
4 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.

  • Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
  • 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 36 cooking Sauces

From least to most processed, this one ranks 30th. 67% of the cooking 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 36 cooking Sauces, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5050665016439, last edited 4 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.