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Is Dr Will’s all natural tomato ketchup ultra-processed?

250 g Tomato Ketchup Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Dr Will’s all natural tomato ketchup

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:

  • 13 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score B

Less processed tomato Ketchup

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

Tomato paste 35.5%, tomatoes 21%, apple vinegar, date, onion, bramley apple puree, garlic puree, spices, salt, ginger, chicory root fibre, natural colour (paprika extract)

Additives: E160c Paprika extract

As written on the pack

Tomato paste (35.5%), tomatoes (21%), apple vinegar, date syrup, onion, bramley apple puree, garlic puree, spices, salt, ginger puree, chicory root fibre, natural colour (paprika extract)

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.

  • 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.

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.

  • Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
1 ingredient 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 61 tomato Ketchup

From least to most processed, this one ranks 55th. 54% of the tomato Ketchup 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 61 tomato Ketchup, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0737452885298, last edited 19 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 B (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.