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Is Sainsbury's Mango and passionfruit coulis ultra-processed?

Fruit-based foods Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Sainsbury's Mango and passionfruit coulis

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:

  • 9 ingredients
  • 1 additive

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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

Water, Mango Purée 20%, Passion Fruit 16%, Sugar, Passion Fruit Juice 10%, Glucose Syrup, Cornflour, Preservative (Potassium Sorbate)

Additives: E202 Potassium sorbate

As written on the pack

Water, Mango Purée (20%), Passion Fruit Purée (16%), Sugar, Concentrated Passion Fruit Juice (10%), Glucose Syrup, Cornflour, Preservative: Potassium Sorbate.

What makes it ultra-processed

Substances rarely used in home kitchens

Refined or extracted in factories, such as syrups made from starch or isolated proteins. The other hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
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.

  • 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.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 386 fruit-based foods

From least to most processed, this one ranks 300th. 47% of the fruit-based foods 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 386 fruit-based foods, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00168502, last edited 25 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.
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.