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Is Tesco ground nut oil ultra-processed?

500 ml Vegetable oils Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Tesco ground nut oil

No, it's a kitchen staple

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

It is pressed or refined from a food and used for cooking, like oil, butter or sugar.

  • 1 ingredient
  • No additives

Ingredients

Peanut Oil

As written on the pack

Peanut Oil.

Why it is in group 2

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • Fats Products in the category "Fats" are at least group 2.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 359 vegetable oils

From least to most processed, this one ranks 136th. 10% of the vegetable oils 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 359 vegetable oils, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5054402718075, 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.
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.