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Is Sharwood's Sharwoods Stir Fry Hoi Sin & Spring Onion Sauce 195G ultra-processed?

195 g Sauces Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Sharwood's Sharwoods Stir Fry Hoi Sin & Spring Onion Sauce 195G

Yes, it's ultra-processed

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

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

  • 25 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score D

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

Walter, Tomatoes Sugar, Soya Bean Aurte Light Soy Sauce (Water, Sall, Soya flean Extract, Wheat Flour Sugar), Barley Malt Vinegar, Modified Maize Starch, Muscovado Sugar, Spring Onions, % Spices, Brandy, contains Colour, 150 Carameled Sugar Syrup, Sesame OIl, Salt, Vegetable Boullon Sea Salt, Potato Starch Yeast Extract Palm Fat Celery Powder, Onion Powde, Ground Parsley Maltodestri, Sugar Spices, contain Celery Seeds Garic Powder Flavourings, contain Wheat, Mustard Orion Powder

As written on the pack

Walter, Tomatoes Sugar, Soya Bean Aurte Light Soy Sauce (Water, Sall, Soya flean Extract, Wheat Flour Sugar) Barley Malt Vinegar, Modified Maize Starch, Muscovado Sugar. Spring Onions (% Spices, Brandy (contains Colour (150 Carameled Sugar Syrup, Sesame OIl, Salt, Vegetable Boullon Sea Salt, Potato Starch Yeast Extract Palm Fat Celery Powder, Onion Powde, Ground Parsley Maltodestri, Sugar Spices (contain Celery Seeds Garic Powder Flavourings (contain Wheat, Mustard Orion Powder.

What makes it ultra-processed

Cosmetic additives

Added to change how the food looks, feels or tastes, not to keep it safe. A hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.
4 ingredients that would only make it processed

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.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 2,962 sauces

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1768th. 60% of the 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 2,962 sauces, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000354203664, last edited 14 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.