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Is Chilli sauce ultra-processed?

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Pack of Chilli 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:

  • 20 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score A

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

tomatoes 74%, onion 6%, red kidney beans 6%, sugar, red epe spices 1.5%, modified maize starch, potato starch, garlic puree, salt, red chili uie 5%, concentrated lemon juice, dried oregano, acid (citric acid), colours papria extract, mixed carotenes, parsley, stabiliser (xanthan gum), flavourings queries o cment

Additives: E330 Citric acid , E415 Xanthan gum

As written on the pack

tomatoes (74% ), onion (6%), red kidney beans (6%), sugar, red epe spices (1,5%), modified maize starch, potato starch, garlic puree, salt, red chili uie (05%) concentrated lemon juice, dried oregano, acid (citric acid), colours papria extract, mixed carotenes), dried parsley, stabiliser (xanthan gum), flavourings queries o cment

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.
  • 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.
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.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000354909030, 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.
  • NOVA measures processing, not nutrition. For nutrition, Open Food Facts gives this product a Nutri-Score of A (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.