Is Garant Kebabsås Röd & Het ultra-processed?

250 ml Meal 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:

E415 Xanthan gum

19 ingredients
4 additives
Nutri-Score D

Less processed meal 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, tomatpuré, tomat, rapsolja, röd paprika, tomatjuice, lök, vinäger, socker (processing marker), majsstärkelse (processing marker), salt (processing marker), chili 0.8%, vitlök, spiskummin, persilja, kaliumsorbat (processing marker), kaliumdisulfit, xantangummi (ultra-processing marker), citronsyra

Additives: E202 Potassium sorbate , E224 Potassium metabisulphite , E330 Citric acid , E415 Xanthan gum

As written on the pack

Vatten, tomatpuré, tomat, rapsolja, röd paprika, tomatjuice, lök, vinäger, socker, majsstärkelse, salt, chili 0,8%, vitlök, spiskummin, persilja, konserveringsmedel (kaliumsorbat, KALIUMDISULFIT), förtjockningsmedel (xantangummi), surhetsreglerande medel (citronsyra).

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.

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.

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.
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 134 meal sauces

From least to most processed, this one ranks 110th. 37% of the meal 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 134 meal sauces, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 7311043000951, last edited 9 September 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
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.