Is Sainsbury's taste the difference old Delhi style Butter chicken ultra-processed?

340g Indian-style sauces 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:

Milk proteins
Modified starch

25 ingredients
2 additives
Nutri-Score C

Less processed indian-style sauces

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, Tomato, Single Cream 8% (Cows' Milk), Butter (processing marker) 3.5% (Cows' Milk), Modified Maize Starch (ultra-processing marker), Sugar (processing marker), Tomato Paste, Dried Onion, Rapeseed Oil, Ginger, Garlic Purée, Paprika Powder, Coriander, Salt (processing marker), Whey Protein (ultra-processing marker) (Cows' Milk), Cardamom, Cumin, Lactic Acid, Citric Acid, Smoked Paprika, Fenugreek Leaf, Chilli

Additives: E270 Lactic acid , E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

Water, Tomato, Single Cream (8%) (Cows' Milk), Butter (3.5%) (Cows' Milk), Modified Maize Starch, Sugar, Tomato Paste, Dried Onion, Rapeseed Oil, Ginger Purée, Garlic Purée, Paprika Powder, Coriander Powder, Salt, Whey Protein Concentrate (Cows' Milk), Cardamom Powder, Cumin Powder, Acidity Regulators: Lactic Acid, Citric Acid; Smoked Paprika, Fenugreek Leaf, Chilli Powder.

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.

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.

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.

Milk proteins Milk proteins are proteins separated from milk, such as caseinates and whey protein concentrates, added to adjust texture or raise protein content.

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.

Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
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 33 indian-style sauces

From least to most processed, this one ranks 19th. 73% of the indian-style sauces 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 33 indian-style sauces, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5063334005511, last edited 16 August 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.