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Is Santa Maria Hot Taco Sauce ultra-processed?

230 g Hot sauces Sold in Denmark and Germany

Pack of Santa Maria Hot Taco 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:

  • 16 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed hot 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

Tomat 65% (krossade tomater, tomatpuré), vatten, lök, salt, kryddor och örter (chilipeppar, vitlök, grön jalapeño, spiskummin, koriander, oregano), ättika, grön paprika, majsstärkelse

As written on the pack

Tomat (65%)(krossade tomater, tomatpuré), vatten, lök, salt, kryddor och örter (chilipeppar, vitlök, grön jalapeño, spiskummin, koriander, oregano), ättika, grön paprika, majsstärkelse

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.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 185 hot sauces

From least to most processed, this one ranks 43rd. 70% of the hot 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 185 hot sauces, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 7311312002143, last edited 16 September 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.