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Is Sainsbury's Wild Cranberry Sauce ultra-processed?

220g Cranberry sauces Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Sainsbury's Wild Cranberry Sauce

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:

  • 3 ingredients
  • No additives

Less processed 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

Sugar, Lingonberry 28%, Cranberry 21%

As written on the pack

Sugar, Lingonberry (28%), Cranberry (21%).

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 10 cranberry sauces

From least to most processed, this one ranks 2nd. 50% of the cranberry 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 10 cranberry sauces, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 01736083, 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.
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.