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Is Saxa Table Salt ultra-processed?

70g Table salts Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Saxa Table Salt

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.

  • 3 ingredients
  • No additives

Less processed condiments

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

Ingredients

Salt, Anti-caking Agent (Sodium Hexacyanoferrate II)

As written on the pack

Salt, Anti-caking Agent (Sodium Hexacyanoferrate II).

Why it is in group 2

Category rules

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

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

How the NOVA groups work

Among 23 table salts

From least to most processed, this one ranks 6th. 13% of the table salts 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 23 table salts, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5019989103119, last edited 13 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.