Is Heinz Original Cocktail Sauce ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 14 ingredients
- No additives
- Nutri-Score D
Less processed dips
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Tomato concentrate (tomato paste, water), distilled white vinegar, high fructose corn syrup (ultra-processing marker), horseradish, corn syrup (ultra-processing marker), salt (processing marker), soybean oil (processing marker), dehydrated onions, natural flavorings (ultra-processing marker), spices, onion powder, garlic powder
As written on the pack
Tomato concentrate (tomato paste, water), distilled white vinegar, high fructose corn syrup, horseradish, corn syrup, salt, soybean oil, dehydrated onions, natural flavorings, spices, onion powder, garlic powder.
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.
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.
- Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
- High fructose corn syrup High-fructose corn syrup is made from corn starch: enzymes break it down to glucose and convert part of that into fructose, giving a syrup about as sweet as table sugar.
- Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn 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.
- Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
- Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
Among 433 dips
From least to most processed, this one ranks 387th. 43% of the dips here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 01311307, last edited 1 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.