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Is Sainsbury's Sweet chilli houmous ultra-processed?

Hummus Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Sainsbury's Sweet chilli houmous

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

  • 16 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score B

Less processed hummus

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

Cooked Chickpeas 50% (Water, Chickpeas), Water, Rapeseed Oil, Tahini Sesame Seed Paste 9%, Sugar, White Wine Vinegar, Concentrated Lemon Juice, Red Chilli Purée 3.5%, Ginger, Garlic Purée, Salt, Cornflour, Preservative (Potassium Sorbate)

Additives: E202 Potassium sorbate

As written on the pack

Cooked Chickpeas (50%) (Water, Chickpeas), Water, Rapeseed Oil, Tahini Sesame Seed Paste (9%), Sugar, White Wine Vinegar, Concentrated Lemon Juice, Red Chilli Purée (3.5%), Ginger Purée, Garlic Purée, Salt, Cornflour, Preservative: Potassium Sorbate

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.

Preservation and traditional processing

Keep food safe or ferment it, like preservatives and cultures. A sign of processing, not ultra-processing.

  • 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 223 hummus

From least to most processed, this one ranks 114th. 25% of the hummus 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 223 hummus, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00273886, 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 B (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.