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Is Kania Thousand Island Salad Dressing ultra-processed?

400 ml Salad dressings Sold in Sweden

Pack of Kania Thousand Island Salad Dressing

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:

  • 32 ingredients
  • 5 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed salad dressings

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

Vatten, rapsolja, socker, tomatkoncentrat 7%, ättiksprit, gurka 6% (gurka, vatten, ättiksprit, salt), röd paprika 4.2%, modifierad majsstärkelse, senap 2% (vatten, ättiksprit, senapsfrön, socker, salt), äggula, lök, salt, färgämne (titandioxid), surhetsreglerande medel (mjölksyra), stabiliseringsmedel (xantangummi), konserveringsmedel (kaliumsorbat), vitpeppar, gurkmeja, paprikaextrakt

Additives: E160c Paprika extract , E171 Titanium dioxide , E202 Potassium sorbate , E270 Lactic acid , E415 Xanthan gum

As written on the pack

Vatten, rapsolja, socker, tomatkoncentrat 7 %, ättiksprit, inlagd gurka 6 % (gurka, vatten, ättiksprit, salt), röd paprika 4,2 %, modifierad majsstärkelse, senap 2 % (vatten, ättiksprit, senapsfrön, socker, salt), äggula, lök, salt, färgämne (titandioxid), surhetsreglerande medel (mjölksyra), stabiliseringsmedel (xantangummi), konserveringsmedel (kaliumsorbat), vitpeppar, gurkmeja, paprikaextrakt.

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.

  • E160c Paprika extract Paprika extract is a red-orange colour extracted from paprika peppers.
  • E171 Titanium dioxide Titanium dioxide is a white pigment.
  • 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.
  • 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.
5 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.
  • 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 252 salad dressings

From least to most processed, this one ranks 214th. 85% of the salad dressings 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 252 salad dressings, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 20121129, last edited 24 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.