Is Thai Sweet Chilli ultra-processed?

Sauces Sold in the United Kingdom

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

E1422 Acetylated distarch adipate

31 ingredients
2 additives
Nutri-Score E

Less processed 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

a sweet, spicy sauuce for dips and stir-fries, ateicious dip with a kick for dim sum and prawn arackers! aoute meat halfway through cooking for an authentic thai twist! hodener modified com starch e1422, acidity regulator (acetic acid e260 ents eau, sucre, chii rouge 23%, ail, sel, agent epaississant tasty tips ise your noodles and stir fries with flavour and glaze your ha sueet chilli sauce the ients (vater), sugar (processing marker), red chilli 23%, garlic, salt (processing marker), eeture endt see bottle re chilfi thai douce te diamidon acétyle e1422), régulateur d acidité swe keique e260) ine de consommation voir la bouteille, andische chilisoße asweet asser zucker, rote chilis (23%%), knoblauch, salz, modifizierte maisstärke e1422, säureregulator eatbar bis ende (siehe flasche e260 ino dolce thailandese zucchero), peperoncino rosso (aglia acetico e260 pamido di mais modificato e1422 23%), regolatore ente entro (vedi bottiglia sakker), rod chili 23% hvidlog salt set majsstivelse e1422 ye e260 dulce e1422 comector de acde ac a atas d vese botela rojo, aja sal espe 23%

Additives: E1422 Acetylated distarch adipate , E260 Acetic acid

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E1422 Acetylated distarch adipate.

As written on the pack

a sweet, spicy sauuce for dips or stir-fries. ateicious dip with a kick for dim sum or prawn arackers! aoute meat halfway through cooking for an authentic thai twist! hodener modified com starch e1422), acidity regulator (acetic acid e260 ents eau, sucre, chii rouge (23%), ail, sel, agent epaississant tasty tips ise your noodles and stir fries with flavour or glaze your ha sueet chilli sauce the ients: vater, sugar, red chilli (23%), garlic, salt, eeture endt see bottle re chilfi thai douce te diamidon acétyle e1422), régulateur d acidité swe keique e260) ine de consommation voir la bouteille. andische chilisoße asweet asser zucker, rote chilis (23%%), knoblauch, salz, modifizierte maisstärke e1422), säureregulator eatbar bis ende: siehe flasche e260 ino dolce thailandese zucchero, peperoncino rosso (23% aglia acetico e260 pamido di mais modificato e1422), regolatore ente entro: vedi bottiglia sakker, rod chili 23% hvidlog salt set majsstivelse e1422 ye e260 dulce e1422 comector de acde ac a atas d vese botela rojo (23% aja sal espe

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.

E1422 Acetylated distarch adipate Acetylated distarch adipate is a chemically modified starch that holds up to heating, freezing and acidity, used to thicken sauces and fillings.

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 2,964 sauces

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1673rd. 60% of the 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 2,964 sauces, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5013635410927, 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 E (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.