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Is Pizza Express Pizza Dipping Sauce Garlic & Herb ultra-processed?

255g Pizza sauces Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Pizza Express Pizza Dipping Sauce Garlic & 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:

  • 33 ingredients
  • 5 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed pizza 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

Rapeseed Oil, Lean Yogurt, Spirit Vinegar, Information Onion, Sugar, Garlic 3.7%, Herbs (Parsley 3.2%, Tarragon 0.2%, Basil), Mustard (Water, Mustard Seeds, Spirit Vinegar, Spices), Free Range Egg, Egg Yolk, Water, Maize Starch, Salt, Sea Salt, Modified Maize Starch, Onion, Flavouring, Thickener (Guar Gum), Acids (Lactic Acid, Citric Acid), Preservative (Potassium Sorbate), Antioxidant (e385)

Additives: E202 Potassium sorbate , E270 Lactic acid , E330 Citric acid , E385 Calcium disodium ethylenediaminetetraacetate , E412 Guar gum

As written on the pack

Rapeseed Oil, Lean Yogurt (Milk), Spirit Vinegar, Information Onion, Sugar, Garlic (3.7%), Herbs (Parsley (3.2%), Tarragon (0.2%), Basil), Mustard (Water, Mustard Seeds, Spirit Vinegar, Spices), Free Range Egg and Egg Yolk, Water, Maize Starch, Salt and Sea Salt, Modified Maize Starch, Onion Concentrate, Flavouring (Milk), Thickener (Guar Gum), Acids (Lactic Acid, Citric Acid), Preservative (Potassium Sorbate), Antioxidant (E385). For allergens, see ingredients in bold.

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.

  • E412 Guar gum Guar gum is a thickener ground from the seeds of the guar plant.
  • 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.
  • 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.
5 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.

  • E202 Potassium sorbate Preservatives are substances which prolong the shelf-life of foods by protecting them against deterioration caused by micro-organisms and/or which protect against growth of pathogenic micro-organisms.
  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
  • 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 14 pizza sauces

From least to most processed, this one ranks 14th. 50% of the pizza 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 14 pizza sauces, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5039303006117, 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.