Is Waitrose Deli-Style Coleslaw ultra-processed?

300g Coleslaw Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Waitrose Deli-Style Coleslaw

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:

  • 11 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Cabbage 41%, rapeseed oil, carrot 15%, pasteurised free range egg yolk, spirit vinegar, red onion 1.5%, sugar (processing marker), whipping cream, salt (processing marker), chives, mustard

As written on the pack

Cabbage (41%), rapeseed oil, carrot (15%), pasteurised free range egg yolk, spirit vinegar, red onion (1.5%), sugar, whipping cream (milk), salt, chives, mustard flour.

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.

Category rules

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

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

How the NOVA groups work

Among 40 coleslaw

From least to most processed, this one ranks 3rd. 90% of the coleslaw 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 40 coleslaw, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000169145920, last edited 28 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.