Is The Fremont Company Mississippi Barbecue Sauce Original ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 40 ingredients
- 1 additive
- Nutri-Score E
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
ingredients, ingrédients, zutaten, ingredienten (Tomato concentrate), high fructose corn syrup (ultra-processing marker), vinegar, salt (processing marker), onion, smoke flavoring (ultra-processing marker), coloring e150D (ultra-processing marker), spices, Concentré de tomates, sirop de glucose, fructose (ultra-processing marker), vinaigre, sel, oignons en poudre, arôme de fumée, e150D (ultra-processing marker), épices (contient de la MOUTARDE), Tomatenkonzentrat, Fructose-Glucose, Sirup, Branntweinessig, Salz, Zwiebelpulver, Raucharoma, Farbstoff e150D, Gewürze (enthält SENF), Tomantenconcentraat, glucose-fructosestroop azijn, zout, poeder van ajuin, rook aroma kleurstoffen (e150D (ultra-processing marker)), kruiden (bevat MOSTERD)
Additives: E150d Sulphite ammonia caramel
As written on the pack
INGREDIENTS / INGRÉDIENTS / ZUTATEN / INGREDIENTEN: Tomato concentrate, high fructose corn syrup, vinegar, salt, powdered onion, smoke flavoring, coloring E150D, spices. (contains MUSTARD)/ Concentré de tomates, sirop de glucose - fructose, vinaigre, sel, oignons en poudre, arôme de fumée, colorant: E150D, épices (contient de la MOUTARDE)/ Tomatenkonzentrat, Fructose-Glucose - Sirup, Branntweinessig, Salz, Zwiebelpulver, Raucharoma, Farbstoff E150D, Gewürze (enthält SENF) / Tomantenconcentraat, glucose-fructosestroop azijn, zout, poeder van ajuin, rook aroma kleurstoffen: E150 D, kruiden. (bevat MOSTERD)
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.
- E150d Sulphite ammonia caramel Sulphite ammonia caramel is the dark brown colour in colas and many sauces, made by heating sugars with sulphite and ammonia compounds.
- Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
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.
- Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
- High fructose corn syrup High-fructose corn syrup is made from corn starch: enzymes break it down to glucose and convert part of that into fructose, giving a syrup about as sweet as table sugar.
- Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
1 ingredient 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.
Among 107 barbecue sauces
From least to most processed, this one ranks 78th. 86% of the barbecue sauces here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0743639000057, last edited 18 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 E (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.