Is El Taco Truck Pineapple vodka salsa, medium ultra-processed?

200 ml Vegan sauces Sold in Sweden

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Flavouring

22 ingredients
2 additives
Nutri-Score D

Less processed vegan 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

Vatten, ananas 28%, tomat 14%, vitvinsvinäger, salt (processing marker), sirap, kryddor (vitlök, ancho chili, gurkmeja, koriander, kanel), socker (processing marker), stärkelse (processing marker), vodka 1.5%, gul paprika, rapsolja, surhetsreglerande medel (mjölksyra), konserveringsmedel (processing marker) (e202 (processing marker)), naturlig arom (ultra-processing marker)

Additives: E202 Potassium sorbate , E270 Lactic acid

As written on the pack

Vatten, ananas (28%), tomat (14%), vitvinsvinäger, salt, sirap, kryddor (vitlök, ancho chili, gurkmeja, koriander, kanel), socker, stärkelse, vodka (1,5%), gul paprika, rapsolja, surhetsreglerande medel (mjölksyra), konserveringsmedel (E202), naturlig arom.

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.

Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.

5 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.

E202 Potassium sorbate Preservatives are substances which prolong the shelf-life of foods by protecting them against deterioration caused by micro-organisms and/or which protect against growth of pathogenic micro-organisms.
Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
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 vegan sauces

From least to most processed, this one ranks 10th. 86% of the vegan 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 vegan sauces, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 7350115940344, last edited 25 June 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 D (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.