Is Sainsbury's Sour Cream & Chive Dip ultra-processed?

1 x 200g Sour creams Sold in the United Kingdom

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Vegetable fiber

19 ingredients
No additives
Nutri-Score C

Less processed sour creams

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

Soured Cream 55% (Cows' Milk), Mayonnaise (processing marker) (Water, Rapeseed Oil, Egg, Cornflour, Spirit Vinegar, Sugar (processing marker), Rice Starch (processing marker), Salt (processing marker), Citrus Fibre (ultra-processing marker), Egg White, Potato Fibre (ultra-processing marker)), Onion, Rapeseed Oil, Chives 3%, Cornflour, Salt (processing marker)

As written on the pack

Soured Cream (55%) (Cows' Milk), Mayonnaise (Water, Rapeseed Oil, Pasteurised Egg, Cornflour, Spirit Vinegar, Sugar, Rice Starch, Salt, Citrus Fibre, Dried Egg White, Potato Fibre), Onion, Rapeseed Oil, Chives (3%), Cornflour, Salt.

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.

Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.

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.

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.
Sauce A prepared sauce used as an ingredient.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 52 sour creams

From least to most processed, this one ranks 36th. 37% of the sour creams 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 52 sour creams, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 01537925, 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 C (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.