Is Knorr Burger Soße ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 32 ingredients
- 4 additives
- Nutri-Score D
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
tomato paste 32%, drinking water, vegetable oils (processing marker) (soya, sunflower), vinegar (brandy, barley malt), mustard (water, mustard seed, vinegar, salt (processing marker), flavourings (ultra-processing marker), spices), sugar (processing marker), modified starch (ultra-processing marker), egg yolk, onion, salt (processing marker), spices, flavors (ultra-processing marker), glucose syrup (ultra-processing marker), thickener (ultra-processing marker) (xanthan gum (ultra-processing marker)), lemon juice concentrate, anchovies, herbs, anti-oxidant (e385), colouring (ultra-processing marker) (carotene (ultra-processing marker))
Additives: E14XX Modified Starch , E160a Carotene , E385 Calcium disodium ethylenediaminetetraacetate , E415 Xanthan gum
As written on the pack
32% tomato paste, drinking water, vegetable oils (soya, sunflower), vinegar, (brandy, barley malt ), 5%, mustard (water, mustard seed , vinegar, salt, flavourings, spices), sugar, modified starch, egg yolk , onion powder, salt, spices, flavors, glucose syrup, thickener (xanthan gum), lemon juice concentrate, anchovies , herbs, anti-oxidant (e385), colouring (carotene),
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.
- E14xx Modified Starch Modified starches (E1400 to E1452) are starches treated physically, with enzymes or chemically so that they thicken and hold up to heating, freezing or acidity better than ordinary starch.
- E160a Carotene Carotenes are orange-yellow pigments, either synthesised or extracted from carrots, algae or palm oil.
- 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.
- Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.
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- 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.
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.
- Glucose syrup 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.
- Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
Among 23 burger sauces
From least to most processed, this one ranks 21st. 91% of the burger sauces here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 8717163907467, last edited 25 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.