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Is Primal Kitchen Avocado Lime Sauce & Dressing ultra-processed?

Salad dressings Sold in the United States

Pack of Primal Kitchen Avocado Lime Sauce & 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:

  • 27 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

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Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

avocado oil, water, apple cider vinegar, egg yolk, distilled vinegar, potato starch, mushroom extract (to maintain freshness), sea salt, avocado, lime juice concentrate, onion, garlic, nutritional yeast, inactive dried yeast, riboflavin, spinach powder (color), citric acid, salt, tamarind seed gum, parsley, chives, dried dill weed, black pepper, rosemary extract, lime oil

Additives: E101 Riboflavin , E101i Riboflavin , E330 Citric acid , E392 Extracts of rosemary

As written on the pack

AVOCADO OIL, WATER, ORGANIC APPLE CIDER VINEGAR, ORGANIC EGG YOLK, ORGANIC DISTILLED VINEGAR, POTATO STARCH, MUSHROOM EXTRACT (TO MAINTAIN FRESHNESS), SEA SALT, AVOCADO PULP, ORGANIC LIME JUICE CONCENTRATE*, ORGANIC ONION POWDER, GARLIC POWDER, NUTRITIONAL YEAST (INACTIVE DRIED YEAST, RIBOFLAVIN (VITAMIN B2]), ORGANIC SPINACH POWDER (COLOR), CITRIC ACID, SALT, TAMARIND SEED GUM, ORGANIC DRIED PARSLEY, ORGANIC DRIED CHIVES, ORGANIC DRIED DILL WEED, ORGANIC BLACK PEPPER, ORGANIC ROSEMARY EXTRACT, ORGANIC LIME OIL

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.

  • E101 Riboflavin Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
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.

  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 252 salad dressings

From least to most processed, this one ranks 131st. 85% of the salad dressings 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 252 salad dressings, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0840224601016, last edited 8 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.