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Is Waitrose Rich tangy tomato chutney ultra-processed?

Tomatoes and their products Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Waitrose Rich tangy tomato chutney

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:

  • 14 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed tomatoes and their products

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

tomato 52%, sugar, barley malt vinegar, tomato 8%, red pepper 2%, onion, salt, green pepper, garlic puree, ginger, paprika, acidity regulator (citric acid), mustard seeds

Additives: E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

tomato (52%), sugar, barley malt vinegar, diced tomato (8%), diced red pepper (2%), onion puree, salt, diced green pepper, garlic puree, ginger puree, ground paprika, acidity regulator (citric acid), mustard seeds

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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 499 tomatoes and their products

From least to most processed, this one ranks 372nd. 20% of the tomatoes and their products 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 499 tomatoes and their products, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000169245330, 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.