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Is Tesco Garlic sauce ultra-processed?

235 ml Sauces Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Tesco Garlic 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:

  • 25 ingredients
  • 5 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed 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

Water, Rapeseed Oil 25%, Spirit Vinegar, Sugar, Modified Maize Starch, Pasteurised Egg Yolk 1.5%, Dijon Mustard (Water, Mustard Seed, Spirit Vinegar, Salt), Garlic 1.2%, Salt, Acidity Regulators (Tartaric Acid, Citric Acid), Onion, Thickeners (Guar Gum, Xanthan Gum), Chive, Preservative (Potassium Sorbate), Parsley, White Pepper

Additives: E202 Potassium sorbate , E330 Citric acid , E334 L(+)-tartaric acid , E412 Guar gum , E415 Xanthan gum

As written on the pack

Water, Rapeseed Oil (25%), Spirit Vinegar, Sugar, Modified Maize Starch, Pasteurised Egg Yolk (1.5%), Dijon Mustard (Water, Mustard Seed, Spirit Vinegar, Salt), Garlic (1.2%), Salt, Acidity Regulators (Tartaric Acid, Citric Acid), Onion, Thickeners (Guar Gum, Xanthan Gum), Chive, Preservative (Potassium Sorbate), Parsley, White Pepper

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.

  • E412 Guar gum Guar gum is a thickener ground from the seeds of the guar plant.
  • E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
  • 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.
5 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.

  • E202 Potassium sorbate Preservatives are substances which prolong the shelf-life of foods by protecting them against deterioration caused by micro-organisms and/or which protect against growth of pathogenic micro-organisms.
  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
  • 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 2,964 sauces

From least to most processed, this one ranks 2592nd. 60% of the 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 2,964 sauces, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5057753918385, last edited 8 June 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.