Is Sauce Shop bbq honey chipotle ultra-processed?

Barbecue sauces Sold in the United Kingdom

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

Honey
Salt
Sugar

11 ingredients
No additives
Nutri-Score D

Less processed barbecue sauces

Oven Toasted Old Fashioned Organic Oats Trader Joe's 1 ingredient · no additives NOVA group 1
Liquid Smoke Mesquite Wright's 2 ingredients · no additives NOVA group 1

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

Tomato Purée, Sugar (processing marker), White Grape Vinegar, Honey (processing marker) 8%, Onion, Garlic, Salt (processing marker), Smoked Paprika, Chipotle Pepper 0.5%, NUTRITION TYPICAL VALUES Energy ant to EAL, PLEASE RECYCLE OD SSKCH -- Fat

As written on the pack

Tomato Purée, Sugar, White Grape Vinegar, Honey (8%), Onion, Garlic, Salt, Smoked Paprika, Chipotle Pepper (0.5%) NUTRITION TYPICAL VALUES Energy ant to EAL. PLEASE RECYCLE OD SSKCH -- Fat

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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

Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 107 barbecue sauces

From least to most processed, this one ranks 6th. 86% of the barbecue 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 107 barbecue sauces, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5060604011050, 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 D (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.