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Is Sweet Baby Ray's Honey Mustard Dipping Sauce ultra-processed?

14 fl oz Honey mustards Sold in the United States

Pack of Sweet Baby Ray's Honey Mustard Dipping Sauce

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:

  • 24 ingredients
  • 6 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed honey mustards

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

soybean oil, distilled vinegar, sugar, water, dijon mustard (distilled vinegar, water, mustard seed, salt, white wine, citric acid, tartaric acid, spice), honey, egg yolk, salt, xanthan gum, mustard, oleoresin paprika, calcium disodium edta, spice, corn syrup, natural flavor, yellow 5

Additives: E102 Tartrazine , E160c Paprika extract , E330 Citric acid , E334 L(+)-tartaric acid , E385 Calcium disodium ethylenediaminetetraacetate , E415 Xanthan gum

As written on the pack

soybean oil, distilled vinegar, sugar, water, dijon mustard (distilled vinegar, water, mustard seed, salt, white wine, citric acid, tartaric acid, spice), honey, egg yolk, salt, xanthan gum, mustard flour, oleoresin paprika, calcium disodium edta, spice, corn syrup, natural flavor, yellow 5

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.

  • E102 Tartrazine Tartrazine is a synthetic yellow azo dye (FD&C Yellow No. 5 in the US).
  • E160c Paprika extract Paprika extract is a red-orange colour extracted from paprika peppers.
  • E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
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.

  • Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • 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 10 honey mustards

From least to most processed, this one ranks 9th. 80% of the honey mustards 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 10 honey mustards, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0013409516270, last edited 6 December 2025), 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.