Is Tesco Reduced Fat Soured Cream & Chive ultra-processed?

Dips 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:

Vegetable fiber

21 ingredients
No additives
Nutri-Score D

Less processed dips

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

Reduced Fat Soured Cream, Mayonnaise (processing marker), Water, Rapeseed Oil, Egg, Cornflour, Spirit Vinegar, Sugar (processing marker), Rice Starch (processing marker), Salt (processing marker), Egg White, Citrus Fibre (ultra-processing marker), Potato Fibre (ultra-processing marker), Yogurt, Fromage Frais, Onion, Water, Chive 3%, Rapeseed Oil, Cornflour, Concentrated Lemon Juice

As written on the pack

Reduced Fat Soured Cream (Milk) (44%), Mayonnaise [Water, Rapeseed Oil, Pasteurised Egg. Cornflour, Spirit Vinegar, Sugar, Rice Starch, Salt, Dried Egg White, Citrus Fibre, Potato Fibre), Yogurt (Milk), Fromage Frais (Milk), Onion, Water, Chive (3%), Rapeseed Oil, Cornflour, Concentrated Lemon Juice.

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.

Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.

4 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.
Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
Sauce A prepared sauce used as an ingredient.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 433 dips

From least to most processed, this one ranks 272nd. 43% of the dips 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 433 dips, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 10000021, last edited 19 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 D (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.