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Is Mingle Bbq Sauce ultra-processed?

Barbecue sauces Sold in Australia

Pack of Mingle Bbq Sauce

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:

  • 18 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score B

Less processed barbecue 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

Tomatoes (Tomatoes, Tomato Paste), Vinegar, Mustard, Tapioca Flour, Natural Worcestershire Sauce Flavour, Smoked Paprika, Yeast Extract, Concentrated Apple Juice, Onion Powder, Garlic Powder, Flaxseed Fibre, Coriander, Black Pepper, Natural Maple Flavour, Monk Fruit Extract, Thyme

As written on the pack

Tomatoes (Reconstituted Tomatoes, Tomato Paste), Vinegar, Mustard, Tapioca Flour, Natural Worcestershire Sauce Flavour, Smoked Paprika, Yeast Extract, Concentrated Apple Juice, Onion Powder, Garlic Powder, Flaxseed Fibre, Coriander, Black Pepper, Natural Maple Flavour, Monk Fruit Extract, Thyme

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.

  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • Sweetener Sweeteners give sweetness with few or no calories, many at hundreds of times the strength of sugar.

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.

  • Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
1 ingredient that would only make it processed

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 107 barbecue sauces

From least to most processed, this one ranks 33rd. 86% of the barbecue 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 107 barbecue sauces, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 9350465000338, last edited 19 August 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 B (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.