Is Sharwood’s Sweet & Sour ultra-processed?

425g Sweet and sour sauces Sold in the United Kingdom and Ireland

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Colour

17 ingredients
No additives
Nutri-Score C

Less processed sweet and sour 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

tomatoes 29%, sugar (processing marker), water water chestnut 8%, pineapple 7%, barley malt vinegar, green pepper 5%, red pepper 5%, pineapple juice concentrate, 4%l modified maize starch, garlic purée, ginger, salt (processing marker), toasted sesame oll, colour (ultra-processing marker), paprika extracti, see ingredients per 14pa portion, as sold in bold

As written on the pack

tomatoes (29%), sugar, water water chestnut (8%, pineapple (7%, barley malt vinegar, green pepper (5%), red pepper (5%), pineapple juice concentrate (4%l modified maize starch, garlic purée, ginger purée, salt, toasted sesame oll, colour (paprika extracti. allergy advice: for allergens, see ingredients per 14pa portion (105g as sold in bold

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.

2 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.
Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 17 sweet and sour sauces

From least to most processed, this one ranks 3rd. 88% of the sweet and sour 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 17 sweet and sour sauces, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000354203640, 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 C (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.