Is Heinz Morley's Fried Chicken Sauce ultra-processed?

420grams Burger sauces Sold in the United Kingdom

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Modified flour

17 ingredients
2 additives
Nutri-Score D

Less processed burger 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

sunflower oil (processing marker), water, sugar (processing marker), spirit vinegar, tomato puree, dried onion 3.9%, egg yolk, salt (processing marker), onion powder 0.5%, modified cornflour (ultra-processing marker), paprika powder, chilli 0.5%, citric acid, malic acid, xantham gur gum, chilli, from free range eggs

Additives: E296 Malic acid , E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

sunflower oil, water, sugar, spirit vinegar, tomato puree, dried onion 3,9%, egg yolk*, salt, onion powder 0,5%, modified cornflour, paprika powder, chilli 0,5%, acid (citric acid, malic acid), thickeners (xantham gur gum), chilli extract, *from free range eggs,

What makes it ultra-processed

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.

Modified flour An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.

3 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.

Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 23 burger sauces

From least to most processed, this one ranks 3rd. 91% of the burger 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 23 burger sauces, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 8410066144075, last edited 4 October 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.