Is Red pepper and tomato salsa ultra-processed?

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It's processed, but not ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

Salt
Sugar

13 ingredients
No additives
Nutri-Score A

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Tomato 40%, Red Pepper 17%, Onion 13%, Tomato Purée, Water, Demerara Sugar (processing marker), Lime Juice from Concentrate, Garlic, Salt (processing marker), Smoked Paprika, Chipotle Chilli, Cumin, Cinnamon

As written on the pack

Tomato (40%), Roasted Red Pepper (17%), Onion (13%), Tomato Purée, Water, Demerara Sugar, Lime Juice from Concentrate, Garlic, Salt, Smoked Paprika, Chipotle Chilli Powder, Cumin, Cinnamon.

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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.
Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5060504310581, last edited 1 August 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 A (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.