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Is Kinder's BBQ Sauce Hickory Brown Sugar ultra-processed?

15.8 oz Condiments Sold in the United States

Pack of Kinder's BBQ Sauce Hickory Brown Sugar

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:

  • 29 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

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Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Tomato puree (water, tomato paste), brown sugar, molasses, vinegar, sugar, corn starch, salt, natural smoke flavor (includes natural hickory smoke flavor), Worcestershire sauce (vinegar, molasses, corn syrup, water, salt, caramel color, garlic, sugar, spices, tamarind, natural flavor), dextrose, garlic, onion, caramel color, red pepper, xanthan gum

Additives: E150c Ammonia caramel , E415 Xanthan gum

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E150c Ammonia caramel.

As written on the pack

Tomato puree (water, tomato paste), brown sugar, molasses, vinegar, sugar, corn starch, salt, natural smoke flavor (includes natural hickory smoke flavor), Worcestershire sauce (vinegar, molasses, corn syrup, water, salt, caramel color, garlic powder, sugar, spices, tamarind, natural flavor), cultured dextrose, garlic powder, onion powder, caramel color, ground red pepper, xanthan gum.

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.

  • E150c Ammonia caramel Ammonia caramel is a brown colour made by heating sugars with ammonia compounds.
  • E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
  • 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.
4 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.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Sauce A prepared sauce used as an ingredient.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 3,645 condiments

From least to most processed, this one ranks 3295th. 55% of the condiments 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 3,645 condiments, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0755795700085, last edited 8 June 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.