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Is Tesco Caesar salad dressing ultra-processed?

175 ml Salad dressings Sold in the United Kingdom and Ireland

Pack of Tesco Caesar salad dressing

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

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

Whole foods combined with:

  • 15 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed salad dressings

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

Rapeseed Oil, Water Pasteurised Egg Yolk 6%, White Wine Vinegar, Parmigiano Reggiano Medum Fat Hard Cheese, Sugar, Salt, Concentrated Lemon Juice, Medium Fat Hard Cheese, Garlic Purée, Cornflour, Onion, Black Pepper, Tamarind, Clove, Lemon Oil

As written on the pack

Rapeseed Oil, Water Pasteurised Egg Yolk (6%), White Wine Vinegar, Parmigiano Reggiano Medum Fat Hard Cheese (Milk) (3%),Sugar, Salt, Concentrated Lemon Juice, Medium Fat Hard Cheese (Milk), Garlic Purée, Cornflour, Onion Purée ,Black Pepper, Tamarind Extract, Clove, Lemon Oil.

What makes it processed

Processed ingredients

Processed foods in their own right, such as cheese or milk powder.

  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

Culinary ingredients

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 252 salad dressings

From least to most processed, this one ranks 18th. 85% of the salad dressings 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 252 salad dressings, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 03267585, 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.