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Is Kraft Tartar Sauce ultra-processed?

8 Tartare sauces Sold in the United States and France

Pack of Kraft Tartar 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:

  • 22 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score B

Less processed tartare sauces

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

eau, vinaigre, huile de soja, isoglucose, cornichons hachés, amidon alimentaire modifié, ou moins gnans séchés 2%, sucre, sel, eufs, arômes naturels et artificiels, farine de moutarde, épaississant e415, épices, onservateurs e202, e385, paprika, ail séché, contient des ogm, dclaration nutritionnelle (pour, énergie)

Additives: E202 Potassium sorbate , E385 Calcium disodium ethylenediaminetetraacetate , E415 Xanthan gum

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E415 Xanthan gum, E202 Potassium sorbate.

As written on the pack

eau, vinaigre, huile de soja, isoglucose, cornichons hachés, amidon alimentaire modifié, 2% ou moins gnans séchés, sucre, sel, eufs, arômes naturels et artificiels, farine de moutarde, épaississant e415, épices, onservateurs e202-e385, paprika, ail séché. contient des ogm. dclaration nutritionnelle (pour 100g): énergie

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.

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.
  • High fructose corn syrup High-fructose corn syrup is made from corn starch: enzymes break it down to glucose and convert part of that into fructose, giving a syrup about as sweet as table sugar.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
1 ingredient 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 14 tartare sauces

From least to most processed, this one ranks 10th. 86% of the tartare 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 14 tartare sauces, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0021000026890, last edited 11 September 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 B (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.