Is Morrisons Counted Low Fat French-Style Dressing ultra-processed?

250ml Salad dressings Sold in the United Kingdom

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Colour
E161b Lutein
E415 Xanthan gum

24 ingredients
3 additives
Nutri-Score C

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

Water, Sugar (processing marker), Cider vinegar 7%, White wine vinegar, Dijon mustard 5% (water, mustard seed, spirit vinegar, salt (processing marker)), Cornflour, Rapeseed oil, Salt (processing marker), Chive, Parsley, Concentrated lemon juice, Garlic purée, Onion, Stabiliser (xanthan gum (ultra-processing marker)), Preservative (processing marker) (potassium sorbate (processing marker)), Cracked black pepper, Colour (ultra-processing marker) (lutein (ultra-processing marker))

Additives: E161b Lutein , E202 Potassium sorbate , E415 Xanthan gum

As written on the pack

Water, Sugar, Cider vinegar (7%), White wine vinegar, Dijon mustard (5%) (water, mustard seed, spirit vinegar, salt), Cornflour, Rapeseed oil, Salt, Chive, Parsley, Concentrated lemon juice, Garlic purée, Onion powder, Stabiliser (xanthan gum), Preservative (potassium sorbate), Cracked black pepper, 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.
E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.

4 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 252 salad dressings

From least to most processed, this one ranks 156th. 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 5010525093192, 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 C (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.