Is Tesco Red Pepper & 3 Bean Chilli ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 21 ingredients
- No additives
- Nutri-Score A
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
vegetables 34%, mixed beans (red kidney beans, pinto beans, black turtle beans), tomato purée 23%, tomato, tomato juice, modified maize starch (ultra-processing marker), rapeseed oil, garlic purée, spices, salt (processing marker), barley malt vinegar, sugar (processing marker), garlic, oregano, vegetables (red pepper, onion, carrot)
As written on the pack
vegetables (34%), mixed beans (red kidney beans, pinto beans, black turtle beans), tomato purée (23%), tomato, tomato juice, modified maize starch, rapeseed oil, garlic purée, spices, salt, barley malt vinegar, sugar, garlic powder, oregano, vegetables (red pepper, onion, carrot)
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.
- 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.
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.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5059697732263, 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 A (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.