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Is The Deli Chilli and garlic olives ultra-processed?

140g Olives Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of The Deli Chilli and garlic olives

Yes, it's ultra-processed

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

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

  • 31 ingredients
  • 7 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed olives

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

pimento stuffed green olives 62% (Olives, Pimento Paste (Water, Pimentos, Thickeners (Sodium Alginate), Guar Gum, Salt, Firming Agent (Calcium Chloride), Acidity Regulator (Citric Acid), Preservative (Potassium Sorbate)), Salt, Acidity Regulator, Lactic Acid), black olives 26% (Black Olives, Salt, Stabiliser (Ferrous Gluconate)), Rapeseed Oil, chilli 3.5%, Garlic Purée, Chilli Flavoured Rapeseed Oil (Rapeseed Oil, Flavouring), Parsley, Lemon flavouring

Additives: E202 Potassium sorbate , E270 Lactic acid , E330 Citric acid , E401 Sodium alginate , E412 Guar gum , E509 Calcium chloride , E579 Iron gluconate

As written on the pack

PIMENTO STUFFED GREEN OLIVES (62%) [Olives, Pimento Paste (Water, Pimentos, Thickeners: Sodium Alginate, Guar Gum; Salt, Firming Agent: Calcium Chloride; Acidity Regulator: Citric Acid; Preservative: Potassium Sorbate), Salt, Acidity Regulator. Lactic Acid], PITTED BLACK OLIVES (26%) (Black Olives, Salt, Stabiliser: Ferrous Gluconate), Rapeseed Oil, CHILLI FLAKES (3.5%), Garlic Purée, Chilli Flavoured Rapeseed Oil (Rapeseed Oil, Flavouring), Parsley, Lemon flavouring

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.

  • E401 Sodium alginate A food additive used to dissolve, dilute, disperse or otherwise physically modify a food additive or nutrient without altering its function -and without exerting any technological effect itself- in order to facilitate its handling, application or use of the food additive or nutrient.
  • E412 Guar gum Guar gum is a thickener ground from the seeds of the guar plant.
  • Firming agent Firming agents keep fruit and vegetable tissue crisp or firm through processing and storage.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.
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.

  • E202 Potassium sorbate Preservatives are substances which prolong the shelf-life of foods by protecting them against deterioration caused by micro-organisms and/or which protect against growth of pathogenic micro-organisms.
  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 123 olives

From least to most processed, this one ranks 123rd. 11% of the olives 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 123 olives, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4061464960299, 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.