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Is Sainsbury's Tuna sweet potato and egg salad ultra-processed?

240g Tuna salads Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Sainsbury's Tuna sweet potato and egg salad

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:

  • 31 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score A

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Sweet Potato 27% (Sweet Potato, Rapeseed Oil, Coriander, Smoked Paprika, Salt), Hard Boiled Free Range Egg 19%, Yogurt 17%, Herb Dressing 17% (Reduced Fat Greek Style Yogurt (Cows' Milk), Water, Rapeseed Oil, Spinach, White Wine Vinegar, Concentrated Lemon Juice, Parsley, Capers, Cornflour, Garlic Purée, Dill, Salt, Black Pepper, Sugar Vinegar), Lettuce, Tuna 15% (Skipjack Tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis), Water, Sea Salt), Green Beans

As written on the pack

Chargrilled Sweet Potato (27%) (Sweet Potato, Rapeseed Oil, Coriander Powder, Smoked Paprika, Salt), Hard Boiled Free Range Egg (19%), Yogurt & Herb Dressing (17%) (Reduced Fat Greek Style Yogurt (Cows' Milk), Water, Rapeseed Oil, Spinach, White Wine Vinegar, Concentrated Lemon Juice, Parsley, Capers, Cornflour, Garlic Purée, Dill, Salt, Black Pepper, Sugar Vinegar), Lettuce, Tuna (15%) (Skipjack Tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis) (Fish), Water, Sea Salt), Green Beans.

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.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 14 tuna salads

From least to most processed, this one ranks 4th. 71% of the tuna salads 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 14 tuna salads, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00481847, 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 A (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.