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Is Hellmann's Hellmans Honey & Mustard Dressing 250ml ultra-processed?

250 ml Honey mustards Sold in the United Kingdom and Ireland

Pack of Hellmann's Hellmans Honey & Mustard Dressing 250ml

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:

  • 28 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed honey mustards

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

water, rapeseed oil, spirit vinegar, tarragon mustard 10% (water, mustard seeds, spirit vinegar, sugar, salt, caramel syrup, natural spice flavouring), honey 8%, egg yolk, modified corn starch, natural mustard flavouring, salt, stabiliser (xanthan gum), caramelised sugar syrup, turmeric, preservative (potassium sorbate), colours (lemon, safflower), parsley, acidity regulator (citric acid)

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

As written on the pack

water, rapeseed oil, spirit vinegar, tarragon mustard (10%) (water, mustard seeds, spirit vinegar, sugar, salt, caramel syrup, natural spice flavouring), honey (8%), egg yolk, modified corn starch, natural mustard flavouring, salt, stabiliser (xanthan gum), caramelised sugar syrup, turmeric, preservative (potassium sorbate), colours (lemon, safflower), parsley, acidity regulator (citric acid),

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.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • 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.
6 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.
  • Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
  • 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 10 honey mustards

From least to most processed, this one ranks 8th. 80% of the honey mustards 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 10 honey mustards, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 8720182303769, last edited 31 March 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.