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Is Sainsbury's White granulated sugar ultra-processed?

1 kg Granulated sugars Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Sainsbury's White granulated sugar

No, it's a kitchen staple

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

It is pressed or refined from a food and used for cooking, like oil, butter or sugar.

  • 1 ingredient
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed sweeteners

Less processed isn't automatically healthier, so compare the labels for what matters to you, such as sugar or salt.

Ingredients

White Cane Sugar 100%

As written on the pack

White Cane Sugar (100%).

Why it is in group 2

Category rules

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

  • Sugars Products in the category "Sugars" are at least group 2.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 14 granulated sugars

From least to most processed, this one ranks 9th. 14% of the granulated sugars 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 granulated sugars, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00180238, 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.