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Is Sainsbury's Taste The Difference Beef & Red Wine Gravy ultra-processed?

Gravy Sold in the United Kingdom

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:

  • 14 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed condiments

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

roast beef stock 45% (water, british beef bone, tom a beef bone, water, british beef, salt, tomato puree mant juice from concentrate, cornflour, sulphites sphur dioxide), red wine, preservative (sulphur dioxide 4.2g 4.7g 14% adult, 8400kj)

As written on the pack

roast beef stock (45%) (water, british beef bone, tom a beef bone, water, british beef, salt, tomato puree mant juice from concentrate, cornflour, sulphites sphur dioxide) (5%), red wine (preservative: sulphur dioxide 4.2g 4.7g 14% adult (8400kj/

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.

Preservation and traditional processing

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

How the NOVA groups work

Among 34 gravy

From least to most processed, this one ranks 4th. 71% of the gravy 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 34 gravy, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00130677, last edited 5 March 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
  • 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.