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Is Jack Daniel's Original BBQ Sauce ultra-processed?

Barbecue sauces Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Jack Daniel's Original BBQ Sauce

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:

  • 26 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score E

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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

Tomatoes, Sugar, Vinegar, Tamarind, Invert Sugar Strup Molasses, Salt, Mustard (Water, Mustard Seed, Vinegar, Salt, Sugar, Spices), Modified Corn Oml Starch, Smoke Flavor, Pineapple Juice Concentrate, Caramelised Sugar, Jack Daniel's KJ, Tennessee Whiskey 0.3%, Dried Garlic kcal Thickener (Pectin), Herbs, Spices, Dried Onion, Apple Flavor, Dextrose

Additives: E440 Pectins

As written on the pack

Tomatoes, Sugar, Vinegar, Tamarind Concentrate, Invert Sugar Strup Molasses, Salt, Mustard (Water, Mustard Seed, Vinegar, Salt, Sugar, Spices), Modified Corn Oml Starch, Smoke Flavor, Pineapple Juice Concentrate, Caramelised Sugar, Jack Daniel's KJ/ Tennessee Whiskey (0,3%), Dried Garlic kcal Thickener (Pectin), Herbs, Spices, Dried Onion, Apple Flavor, Dextrose.

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.

  • E440 Pectins Pectins are gelling agents extracted from citrus peel or apple pomace.
  • 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.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
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.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 107 barbecue sauces

From least to most processed, this one ranks 60th. 86% of the barbecue 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 107 barbecue sauces, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0810020931822, last edited 22 August 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.