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Is Pizza Express honey & mustard DRESSING ultra-processed?

Honey mustards Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Pizza Express honey & mustard DRESSING

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:

  • 36 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed honey mustards

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

rapeseed oil, honey 17%, white wine vinegar, water, mustard 9% (water, mustard seeds, spirit vinegar, salt, spices, flavouring), concentrated lemon juice, sugar, salt, mustard seeds 2%, dijon mustard 1% (water, mustard seeds, spirit vinegar, salt), garlic purée, thickener (xanthan gum), black pepper, get in touch we'd love to hear your feedback on this dressing so we can make it the best it can be, you can contact us through our website at hidge industrial estate, oxford road, uxbridge, middlesex, u www.pizzaexpress.com and by writing to pizzaexpress, hunton house, 10, if your feedback is about a particular product, please let us know the best before date and code from the neck of the bottle and where you bought it, made in the netherlands, v77322

Additives: E415 Xanthan gum

As written on the pack

rapeseed oil, honey (17%), white wine vinegar, water, mustard (9%) (water, mustard seeds, spirit vinegar, salt, spices, flavouring). concentrated lemon juice, sugar, salt, mustard seeds (2%), dijon mustard (1%) (water, mustard seeds, spirit vinegar, salt), garlic purée, thickener (xanthan gum), black pepper. allergy advice for allergens see ingredients in bold. suitable for vegetarians. get in touch we'd love to hear your feedback on this dressing so we can make it the best it can be. you can contact us through our website at hidge industrial estate, oxford road, uxbridge, middlesex, u www.pizzaexpress.com or by writing to pizzaexpress, hunton house, 10. if your feedback is about a particular product, please let us know the best before date and code from the neck of the bottle and where you bought it. made in the netherlands. 235ml v77322

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.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.
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.

  • Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 10 honey mustards

From least to most processed, this one ranks 6th. 80% of the honey mustards 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 10 honey mustards, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5039303003758, last edited 27 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.