Is Monte Castello Salladsdressing Thousand Island ultra-processed?

450 ml Salad dressings Sold in Sweden

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Flavouring
Glucose
Fructose
E412 Guar gum

36 ingredients
4 additives
Nutri-Score D

Less processed salad dressings

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

Vatten, rapsolja, grönsaker 15% (paprika, lök, gurka), ättika, mager yog, hurt 10%, glukos-fruktossirap (ultra-processing marker), senap (vatten, senapsfrö, ättika, kryddor), ägg (ägg, äggula), majsstärkelse (processing marker), modifierad majsstär, kelse, gräslök 1%, salt (processing marker), citronjuice från koncentrat, tomat, vitlök 0.7%, kryddor, purjolöksextrakt, arom (ultra-processing marker), e270, förtjocknings, medel (e412 (ultra-processing marker)), e202 (processing marker), e385, Ägg från frigående höns

Additives: E202 Potassium sorbate , E270 Lactic acid , E385 Calcium disodium ethylenediaminetetraacetate , E412 Guar gum

As written on the pack

Vatten, rapsolja, grönsaker 15% (paprika, lök, inlagd gurka), ättika, mager yog - hurt 10%, glukos-fruktossirap, senap (vatten, senapsfrö, ättika, kryddor), ägg* (ägg*, äggula*), majsstärkelse, modifierad majsstär - kelse, gräslök 1%, salt, citronjuice från koncentrat, tomatpulver, vitlök 0,7%, kryddor, purjolöksextrakt, arom, syra (E270), förtjocknings - medel (E412), konserveringsmedel (E202), antioxidant (E385). *Ägg från frigående höns.

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.

E412 Guar gum Guar gum is a thickener ground from the seeds of the guar plant.
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.

Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn 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.

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.
Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 252 salad dressings

From least to most processed, this one ranks 185th. 85% of the salad dressings 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 252 salad dressings, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 7611612140102, last edited 4 September 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.