Is Marks & Spencer Coronation sauce ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 25 ingredients
- 2 additives
- Nutri-Score D
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Rapeseed Oil, Water, Sugar (processing marker), Vinegar, Pasteurised Egg Yolk, Apricot Purée 4%, Mango Purée 3%, Sultanas 1.5%, Salt (processing marker), Cornflour, Dried Onions, Spices (Turmeric, Fenugreek, Cayenne Pepper, Coriander Seeds, Cumin, Ginger, Fennel, Cardamom), Preservative (processing marker) (e202 (processing marker)), Sunflower Oil (processing marker), Colour (ultra-processing marker) (Lutein (ultra-processing marker))
Additives: E161b Lutein , E202 Potassium sorbate
As written on the pack
Rapeseed Oil, Water, Sugar, Vinegar, Pasteurised Egg Yolk, Apricot Purée (4%), Mango Purée (3%), Sultanas (1.5%), Salt, Cornflour, Dried Onions, Ground Spices (Turmeric, Fenugreek, Cayenne Pepper, Coriander Seeds, Cumin, Ginger, Fennel, Cardamom), Preservative: E202, Sunflower Oil, Colour: Lutein.
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.
- E161b Lutein 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.
5 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.
- 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.
- Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
- Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
- Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
Among 252 salad dressings
From least to most processed, this one ranks 116th. 85% of the salad dressings here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 29226719, 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 D (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.