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Is Healthy Boy Brand Sweet chilisås ultra-processed?

Sweet chili sauces Sold in Argentina

Pack of Healthy Boy Brand Sweet chilisås

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
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed sweet chili 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

Socker 32%, vatten 21.73%, vitlök 17%, chili 14%, destillerat ättika 13% (destillerad vinäger 10%), Förtjockningsmedel (modifierad tapiokastärkelse 2% (e1442)), smakförstärkare (Mononatriumglutamat 0.27% (e621))

Additives: E1442 Hydroxypropyl distarch phosphate , E621 Monosodium glutamate

As written on the pack

Socker 32%, vatten 21,73%, vitlök 17%, chili 14%, destillerat ättika (destillerad vinäger 10%) 13%, Förtjockningsmedel: modifierad tapiokastärkelse (E1442) 2%, smakförstärkare: Mononatriumglutamat (E621) 0,27%

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.

  • E1442 Hydroxypropyl distarch phosphate Hydroxypropyl distarch phosphate is a chemically modified starch used to thicken and stabilise desserts, sauces and soups.
  • E621 Monosodium glutamate Monosodium glutamate (MSG) is the sodium salt of glutamic acid, made by fermentation and used to strengthen savoury taste.
  • Flavour enhancer Flavour enhancers such as monosodium glutamate (E621) strengthen savoury taste without adding a flavour of their own.
  • Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.
  • 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.
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.

  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 15 sweet chili sauces

From least to most processed, this one ranks 14th. 87% of the sweet chili 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 15 sweet chili sauces, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 8850206251834, last edited 29 July 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.