Is Marks & Spencer Salad Cream ultra-processed?
It's processed, but not ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Whole foods combined with:
- 10 ingredients
- 1 additive
- Nutri-Score D
Less processed salad dressings
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Water, Rapeseed Oil, Sugar (processing marker), Vinegar, Pasteurised Egg Yolk 4.5%, Cornflour, Salt (processing marker), Mustard, e202 (processing marker), Turmeric
Additives: E202 Potassium sorbate
As written on the pack
Water · Rapeseed Oil · Sugar · Vinegar · Pasteurised Egg Yolk (4.5%) · Cornflour · Salt · Dried Mustard · Preservative: E202 · Turmeric.
What makes it processed
Culinary ingredients
Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.
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.
Among 252 salad dressings
From least to most processed, this one ranks 28th. 85% of the salad dressings here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00819541, last edited 2 July 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.