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Is La Mexicana Hot Salsa ultra-processed?

30 g Sold in the United States

Pack of La Mexicana Hot Salsa

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

  • 13 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score A

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

tomatoes, assorted peppers, onions, cilantro, salt, garlic, assorted spices, citric acid, sodium metabisulfite, ascorbic acid, potassium sorbate, sodium benzoate (to maintain freshness)

Additives: E202 Potassium sorbate , E211 Sodium benzoate , E223 Sodium metabisulphite , E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

FRESH DICED TOMATOES, FRESH CHOPPED ASSORTED PEPPERS, FRESH DICED ONIONS, FRESH CHOPPED CILANTRO, SALT, CRUSHED GARLIC, ASSORTED SPICES, CITRIC ACID, SODIUM METABISULFITE, ASCORBIC ACID, POTASSIUM SORBATE, SODIUM BENZOATE (TO MAINTAIN FRESHNESS).

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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.

Preservation and traditional processing

Keep food safe or ferment it, like preservatives and cultures. A sign of processing, not ultra-processing.

  • 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.

How the NOVA groups work

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0020113001497, last edited 4 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 A (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.