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Is Deluxe Butter Chicken 2 Step Cooking Sauce ultra-processed?

360 g Curry sauces Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Deluxe Butter Chicken 2 Step Cooking 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:

  • 49 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

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Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Water, Single Cream 11%, Tomato 5%, Tomato Paste, Onion 3%, Butter 3%, Sugar, Rapeseed Oil, Modified Maize Starch, Dried Onion, Garlic Purée, Ginger, Coriander, Ginger Powder, Paprika Powder, Cumin, Salt, Colour (Paprika Extract), Acidity Regulators (Lactic Acid), Citric Acid, Fenugreek Leaf, Black Pepper, Chilli, Black Cardamom, Cinnamon Powder, Smoked Paprika, Rice Flour, Salt, Onion, Sugar, Paprika, Cumin, Green Cardamom, Potato Starch, Dextrose, Natural Flavourings, Coriander Seed, Clove, Mace, White Pepper, Colours (Paprika Extract), Turmeric Extract, Bay Leaf, Cinnamon, Cayenne Pepper, Cassia

Additives: E100 Curcumin , E160c Paprika extract , E270 Lactic acid , E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

Water, 11% Single Cream (Milk), 5% Tomato, Tomato Paste, 3% Onion, 3% Butter (Milk), Sugar, Rapeseed Oil, Modified Maize Starch, Dried Onion, Garlic Purée, Ginger Purée, Coriander Powder, Ginger Powder, Paprika Powder, Cumin Powder, Salt, Colour: Paprika Extract; Acidity Regulators: Lactic Acid, Citric Acid; Fenugreek Leaf, Black Pepper Powder, Chilli Powder, Black Cardamom Powder, Cinnamon Powder, Smoked Paprika. Rice Flour, Salt, Onion Powder, Sugar, Paprika, Cumin, Green Cardamom, Potato Starch, Dextrose, Natural Flavourings, Coriander Seed, Clove, Mace, White Pepper, Colours: Paprika Extract, Turmeric Extract; Bay Leaf, Cinnamon, Cayenne Pepper, Cassia.

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.

  • E100 Curcumin 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.
  • E160c Paprika extract Paprika extract is a red-orange colour extracted from paprika peppers.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • 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.

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.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
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.

  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • 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 89 curry sauces

From least to most processed, this one ranks 89th. 67% of the curry 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 89 curry sauces, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4056489895596, 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.