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Is Red's Buffalo Wing Sauce ultra-processed?

290g Dips Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Red's Buffalo Wing 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:

  • 32 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

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Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Water, Butter, Cider Vinegar, Red Chili Paste (Red Chilli, Salt, Acetic Acid), Garlic Puree, Red Chilli, Honey, Jalapeno Chilli 2%, Jalapeno Chilli 57%, Water, Salt, Acetic Acid, Dijon Mustard, Water, Mustard Seeds, Spirit Vinegar, Salt, Citric Acid, Modified Maize Starch, Rapeseed Oil, Red Pepper, Sugar, Salt, Habanero Chilli, Habanero Chilli, Salt, Acetic Acid, Xanthan Gum, Citric Acid

Additives: E260 Acetic acid , E330 Citric acid , E415 Xanthan gum

As written on the pack

Water, Butter (Milk) (15%), Cider Vinegar, Red Chili Paste (Red Chilli, Salt, Acidity Regulator (Acetic Acid)), Garlic Puree, Red Chilli, Honey, Jalapeno Chilli (2%) (Jalapeno Chilli (57%), Water, Salt, Acidity Regulator (Acetic Acid), Dijon Mustard (Water, Mustard Seeds, Spirit Vinegar, Salt, Acidity Regulator (Citric Acid), Modified Maize Starch, Rapeseed Oil, Red Pepper, Sugar, Salt, Habanero Chilli Puree (Habanero Chilli, Salt, Acidity Regulator (Acetic Acid), Stabiliser (Xanthan Gum), Acidity Regulator (Citric Acid).

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.
  • 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.

  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
  • 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 433 dips

From least to most processed, this one ranks 359th. 43% of the dips 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 433 dips, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5039303003345, last edited 29 September 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.