Is Mt. Olive Sandwich stuffers ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 13 ingredients
- 3 additives
- Nutri-Score D
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Cucumbers, high fructose corn syrup (ultra-processing marker), water, vinegar, salt (processing marker), mustard seeds, onion, calcium chloride, sodium benzoate 0.1% (preservative (processing marker)), celery seeds, yellow 5 (ultra-processing marker), and maltol (ultra-processing marker)
Additives: E102 Tartrazine , E211 Sodium benzoate , E636 Maltol
As written on the pack
Cucumbers, high fructose corn syrup, water, vinegar, salt, mustard seeds, onion flakes, calcium chloride, 0.1% sodium benzoate (preservative), celery seeds, yellow 5, and maltol
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.
- E102 Tartrazine Tartrazine is a synthetic yellow azo dye (FD&C Yellow No. 5 in the US).
- E636 Maltol A food additive authorised for industrial food production.
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.
- High fructose corn syrup High-fructose corn syrup is made from corn starch: enzymes break it down to glucose and convert part of that into fructose, giving a syrup about as sweet as table sugar.
- Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
2 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.
- Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
- Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0009300001977, last edited 18 July 2025), 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.