Is Tesco Finest Salted Caramel Sauce ultra-processed?

250 g 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:

Invert sugar

9 ingredients
No additives
Nutri-Score E

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Partially Inverted Refiners Syrup (ultra-processing marker), Skimmed Milk 32%, Skimmed Milk, Sugar (processing marker), Milk Sugarl, Butter (processing marker), Double Cream, Salt (processing marker), Sea Salt (processing marker)

As written on the pack

Partially Inverted Refiners Syrup, Condensed Skimmed Milk (32%) [Skimmed Milk, Sugar, Milk Sugarl, Butter (Milk), Double Cream (Milk) (12%), Salt, Sea Salt.

What makes it ultra-processed

Substances rarely used in home kitchens

Refined or extracted in factories, such as syrups made from starch or isolated proteins. The other hallmark of ultra-processed food.

Invert sugar Invert sugar is ordinary sugar split into glucose and fructose with acid or enzymes.

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.

Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5057545985250, 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 E (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.