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Is Colman’s Colman mint sause ultra-processed?

165 g Mint sauces Sold in the United Kingdom, Australia and 2 more countries

Pack of Colman’s Colman mint sause

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:

  • 12 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed sauces

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

mint 25%, spirit vinegar, sugar, glucose-fructose syrup, water, salt, acid (acetic acid), stabiliser (xanthan gum), colour (copper complexes of chlorophyll)

Additives: E141 Copper complexes of chlorophylls and chlorophyllins , E141i Copper complexes of chlorophylls , E260 Acetic acid , E415 Xanthan gum

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E141 Copper complexes of chlorophylls and chlorophyllins.

As written on the pack

mint (25%), spirit vinegar, sugar, glucose-fructose syrup, water, salt, acid (acetic acid), stabiliser (xanthan gum), colour (copper complexes of chlorophyll),

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.

  • E141 Copper complexes of chlorophylls and chlorophyllins Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
  • E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.

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.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
2 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.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 10 mint sauces

From least to most processed, this one ranks 8th. 100% of the mint 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 10 mint sauces, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 8714100536186, last edited 2 August 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.