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Is Tesco Smoky Grain Salad with Spanish Style Dressing ultra-processed?

240.0 g Prepared salads Sold in Ireland

Pack of Tesco Smoky Grain Salad with Spanish Style Dressing

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

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

Whole foods combined with:

  • 23 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score B

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Pearl Barley 39% (Water, Pearl Barley), Red Pepper Dressing (Red Pepper, Olive Oil, Tomato Paste, Water, White Wine Vinegar, Lemon Juice, Sugar, Salt, Smoked Paprika, Garlic Purée, Cumin, Black Pepper), Chickpeas 13%, Black Rice 12% (Rice, Water), Red Pepper, Red Onion, Yellow Pepper

As written on the pack

Cooked Pearl Barley (39%) (Water, Pearl Barley), Red Pepper Dressing (Grilled Red Pepper, Olive Oil, Tomato Paste, Water, White Wine Vinegar, Lemon Juice, Sugar, Salt, Smoked Paprika, Garlic Purée, Cumin, Black Pepper). Chickpeas (13%), Cooked Black Rice (12%) (Rice, Water), Red Pepper, Red Onion, Yellow Pepper.

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

Category rules

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

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 224 prepared salads

From least to most processed, this one ranks 39th. 60% of the prepared salads 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 224 prepared salads, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5059697265709, last edited 5 September 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 B (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.