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Is Patak's Butter Chicken Cooking Sauce ultra-processed?

450g Sauces Sold in the United Kingdom, France and Germany

Pack of Patak's Butter Chicken 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:

  • 30 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

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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, Onion, Tomato 10%, Single Cream based sauce with fenugreek, green cardamom, Butter, Rapeseed Oil, Sugar, Concentrated Tomato Purée 2.5%, Modified Maize Starch, Spices, Garlic Purée, Ginger, Salt, Green Cardamom 0.5%, Acids (Lactic Acid, Citric Acid), Dried Fenugreek Leaf, Paprika Extract, 011308 505062 guarantee (If you haven't enjoyed this product), please contact us quoting the code on the lid, Your statutory rights are not affected, A513Q03 AB World Foods Ltd, Leigh, wn7 5rs, UK, UK (0800 0195 617 00195617)

Additives: E160c Paprika extract , E270 Lactic acid , E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

Water, Onion, Tomato (10%), Single Cream based sauce with fenugreek & green cardamom. (MILK) (9%), Butter (MILK) (5%), Rapeseed Oil, Sugar, Concentrated Tomato Purée (2.5%), Modified Maize Starch, Ground Spices, Garlic Purée, Ginger Purée, Salt, Ground Green Cardamom (0.5%), Acids (Lactic Acid, Citric Acid), Dried Fenugreek Leaf, Paprika Extract. 011308 505062 GUARANTEE: If you haven't enjoyed this product, please contact us quoting the code on the lid. Your statutory rights are not affected. A513Q03 AB World Foods Ltd., Leigh, WN7 5RS, UK. UK: 0800 0195 617 00195617

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.
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.

  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • 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 2065th. 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 5011308505062, last edited 23 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.