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Is Lidl All purpose seasoning ultra-processed?

Condiments Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Lidl All purpose seasoning

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:

  • 24 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

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Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

salt 59%, sugar, dried vegetables in varvind proportions 15.1% (carrot, onion, parsnip, garlic, red pepper, celeriac, parsley, tomato), polenta, dextrose, wheat starch, flavourings, spices, olive oil, yeast extract, colour (riboflavins), including cereals containing gluten, nutrition information, typical values per (energy 614kj)

Additives: E101 Riboflavin , E101i Riboflavin , E220 Sulphur dioxide

As written on the pack

59% salt, sugar, 15,1% dried vegetables in varvind proportions (carrot, onion (contains sulphur dioxide), parsnip, garlic (contains sulphur dioxide), red pepper, celeriac, parsley, tomato), polenta, dextrose, wheat starch, flavourings, spices, olive oil, yeast extract, colour: riboflavins, allergy advice: for allergens, including cereals containing gluten, see ingredients in bold, may also contain egg, milk, mustard and soya, nutrition information - typical values per 100g: energy 614kj/

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.

  • E101 Riboflavin Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
  • 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.

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.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 3,648 condiments

From least to most processed, this one ranks 3329th. 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 3,648 condiments, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 20342173, last edited 27 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.