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Is Patak's Baltí Cooking Sauce ultra-processed?

Sauces Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Patak's Baltí Cooking 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:

  • 27 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

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Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Water, Tomato 14%, Red 5%, Green Peppers 5%, Rapeseed Oil, Dried Onion 2.5%, Modified Maize Starch, Spices 2% (spices, Cumin, Coriander 0.3%), Sugar, Concentrated Tomato Purée 15%, Garlic Purée, Salt, Ginger, Acids, Lactic Acid, Acetic Acid, Concentrated Lemon Juice, Cracked Black Pepper, Cracked Coriander Seed, Paprika Extract, Fennel Seed, Coriander Leaf, Red Chilli, Dried Fenugreek Leaf

Additives: E160c Paprika extract , E260 Acetic acid , E270 Lactic acid

As written on the pack

Water, Tomato (14%), Red & Green Peppers (5%), Rapeseed Oil, Dried Onion (2.5%), Modified Maize Starch, Ground Spices (2%) [spices, Cumin, Coriander (0.3%)]], Sugar, Concentrated Tomato Purée (15%), Garlic Purée, Salt, Ginger Purée, Acids (Lactic Acid, Acetic Acid, Concentrated Lemon Juice, Cracked Black Pepper, Cracked Coriander Seed, Paprika Extract, Fennel Seed, Dried Coriander Leaf, Dried Crushed Red Chilli, Dried Fenugreek Leaf

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.

  • E160c Paprika extract Paprika extract is a red-orange colour extracted from paprika peppers.
  • Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary 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.

  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 2,962 sauces

From least to most processed, this one ranks 2058th. 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 5011308505048, last edited 1 May 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.