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Is Nando's PERi-PERi Sauce Lemon & Herb ultra-processed?

Sauces Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Nando's PERi-PERi Sauce Lemon & Herb

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:

  • 25 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

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, onion 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 acid), rosemary extract, dextrose, spice extract (paprika), best before (see date printed on neck), shake well before use

Additives: E300 Ascorbic acid , E392 Extracts of rosemary , E405 Propane-1‚2-diol alginate , E415 Xanthan gum

As written on the pack

water, distilled vinegar, 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 acid), rosemary extract, dextrose, spice extract (paprika) best before: see date printed on neck, shake well before use, vegetarian , gluten-free,

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.

  • E405 Propane-1‚2-diol alginate A food additive used to dissolve, dilute, disperse or otherwise physically modify a food additive or nutrient without altering its function -and without exerting any technological effect itself- in order to facilitate its handling, application or use of the food additive or nutrient.
  • 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 2567th. 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 6003770007471, last edited 18 July 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.