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Is Lidl Taste O Sweet & Sour Cooking Sauce V ultra-processed?

Sweet and sour sauces Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Lidl Taste O Sweet & Sour Cooking Sauce V

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:

  • 20 ingredients
  • 1 additive

Less processed sweet and sour 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

Quarter of a Energy 79ical contains Fat <1% 4% A sweet and sour sauce with onions, carrots, pineapple, green and red peppers Ingredients Water, Tomato Purée 13%, Sugar, Onions 9%, Carrots 8%, Pineapple Juice from Concentrate, Pineapple 3% Green Peppers 3%, Modified Maize Starch, Spirit Vinegar, Red Peppers 1.9%, Salt, Ginger, Colour (Anthocyanins), Dried Garlic, Flavouring, 459 lidl

Additives: E163 Anthocyanins

As written on the pack

Quarter of a Energy 79ical contains Fat &lt;1% 4% A sweet and sour sauce with onions, carrots, pineapple, green and red peppers Ingredients Water, 13% Tomato Purée from Concentrate, Sugar, 9% Onions, 8% Carrots, Pineapple Juice from Concentrate, 3% Pineapple 3% Green Peppers, Modified Maize Starch, Spirit Vinegar, 1.9% Red Peppers, Salt, Ginger Purée, Colour: Anthocyanins; Dried Garlic, Flavouring. 459 LIDL

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.

  • E163 Anthocyanins 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.
  • 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.
3 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 17 sweet and sour sauces

From least to most processed, this one ranks 14th. 88% of the sweet and sour 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 17 sweet and sour sauces, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4056489438700, 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.
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.