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Is Nando's Nandos Peri Peri Sauce ultra-processed?

120g Sauces Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Nando's Nandos Peri Peri 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:

  • 33 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed 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

water, distilled vinegar, extract, dextrose, spice extract, paprika nlate try it with chicken, want it on everything, king s and ideas (nandos), co, uk, sauces onion puree 6%, lemon puree 4%, sunflower seed oil, garlic puree 2%, salt, spices, herb (chilli, paprika, parsley, african bird's eye chilli), stabilisers, xanthan gum, propylene glycol alginate antioxidant (ascorbic acíd), rosemary extract, dextrose, spice extract, papri imported by (all about fat tree house), skelmers, ערלהחרח extra mild ition information per 6 20g average tit

Additives: E300 Ascorbic acid , E392 Extracts of rosemary , E415 Xanthan gum

As written on the pack

water, distilled vinegar, extract, dextrose, spice extract (paprika nlate try it with chicken, want it on everything, king s and ideas: nandos,co,uk/sauces onion puree (6%), lemon puree (4%), sunflower seed oil, garlic puree (2%), salt, spices and herb (chilli, paprika, parsley, african bird's eye chilli), stabilisers (xanthan gum, propylene glycol alginate antioxidant (ascorbic acíd), rosemary extract, dextrose, spice extract (papri imported by: all about fat tree house, skelmers - ערלהחרח extra mild ition information per 6 20g average tit

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.

  • E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.

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.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
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.

  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 2,962 sauces

From least to most processed, this one ranks 2344th. 60% of the 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 2,962 sauces, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 6003770002407, last edited 9 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.