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Is Waitrose Sour Cream & Chives Dip ultra-processed?

Herbs Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Waitrose Sour Cream & Chives Dip

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:

  • 15 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed herbs

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

Soured cream, water, rapeseed oil, onion, chive 3%, cornflour, free range egg, concentrated lemon juice, spirit vinegar, salt, sugar, rice starch, citrus fibre, free range egg white, potato fibre

As written on the pack

Soured cream (milk) (61%), water, rapeseed oil, onion, chive (3%), cornflour, pasteurised free range egg, concentrated lemon juice, spirit vinegar, salt, sugar, rice starch, citrus fibre, pasteurised free range egg white powder, potato fibre

What makes it ultra-processed

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.

  • Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
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.

  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 31 herbs

From least to most processed, this one ranks 24th. 26% of the herbs 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 31 herbs, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000169579770, 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.