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Is Sticky pickle ultra-processed?

Plant-based pickles Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Sticky pickle

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
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed plant-based pickles

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

sugar 42%, cane molasses 42%, vegetables 35% (onion, courgette, cauliflower, gherkin, water, acid (acetic acid), salt), spirit vinegar, water, thickener (modified maize starch), apple compote (apple puree, sugar), black treacle, tomato puree, caramelised sugar syrup, seasoning (salt, natural flavouring), garlic puree

Additives: E260 Acetic acid

As written on the pack

sugar and cane molasses (42%), vegetables (35%) (onion, courgette, cauliflower, gherkin, water, acid: acetic acid, salt, (sulphites)), spirit vinegar, water, thickener: modified maize starch, apple compote (apple puree, sugar), black treacle, tomato puree, caramelised sugar syrup, seasoning (salt, natural flavouring), garlic puree

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.

  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.
  • 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.
3 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 296 plant-based pickles

From least to most processed, this one ranks 271st. 31% of the plant-based pickles 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 296 plant-based pickles, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5060092694377, 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.