Is Tesco Onion And Garlic Pasta Sauce ultra-processed?

Pasta sauces Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Firming agent

14 ingredients
1 additive
Nutri-Score A

Less processed pasta 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

Tomatoes 62%, Tomato Purée 25%, Onion 4%, Sugar (processing marker), Garlic Purée 1.5%, Lemon Juice from Concentrate, Cornflour, Salt (processing marker), Garlic Purée, Onion, Herbs, Rapeseed Oil, Firming Agent (ultra-processing marker) (Calcium Chloride)

Additives: E509 Calcium chloride

As written on the pack

Tomatoes (62%), Partially Reconstituted Tomato Purée (25%), Onion (4%), Sugar, Garlic Purée 1.5%), Lemon Juice from Concentrate, Cornflour, Salt, Roasted Garlic Purée, Onion Powder, Herbs, Rapeseed Oil, Firming Agent (Calcium Chloride). Suitable for vegans

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.

Firming agent Firming agents keep fruit and vegetable tissue crisp or firm through processing and storage.

2 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.

Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 317 pasta sauces

From least to most processed, this one ranks 193rd. 49% of the pasta 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 317 pasta sauces, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000462162655, last edited 14 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 A (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.