ASDA · INGREDIENT FREQUENCY
What's in Asda's products?
We scored 4,589 Asda products from our UK supermarket index (2,923 have a verified NOVA processing score). Here's what shows up most often in their ingredient lists, and how scores are distributed across the shelf.
Score distribution — 2,923 scored Asda products
80+
695
23.8%
60-79
285
9.8%
40-59
363
12.4%
<40
1,580
54.1%
Most common additives in Asda's shelf
% = of Asda products that contain at least one mention of this additive in their ingredient list.
- Citric acid (E330) 377 10.2%
- Lecithin (E322) 247 6.7%
- Sodium carbonate / bicarb (E500) 200 5.4%
- Ascorbic acid / Vitamin C (E300) 196 5.3%
- Potassium sorbate (E202) 194 5.3%
- Diphosphates (E450) 177 4.8%
- Paprika extract (E160c) 160 4.3%
- Mono- and diglycerides (E471) 148 4%
- Xanthan gum (E415) 142 3.9%
- E440 108 2.9%
- Beta-carotene (E160a) 104 2.8%
- Guar gum (E412) 97 2.6%
- E331 94 2.6%
- E250 92 2.5%
- E422 79 2.1%
- E270 78 2.1%
- E301 69 1.9%
- E282 66 1.8%
- E260 63 1.7%
- E451 62 1.7%
Most common ingredients on Asda's shelf
The categorical-tag class includes broad descriptors (water, salt, sugar) alongside ingredients proper. Read these as "what tag-class shows up across the Asda shelf".
Salt 36.4%
Sugar 30.2%
Water 28.9%
Flour 23.5%
Wheat 18.2%
Rapeseed Oil 17.8%
Dairy 17.7%
Starch 15.8%
Wheat Flour 14.9%
Vegetable Oil 14.2%
Seed 12.9%
Thiamin 12.4%
Iron 12.3%
Glucose 12.3%
Garlic 11.8%
Yeast 11.7%
Onion 11.7%
Plant 10.7%
Corn 9.7%
Pepper 9.5%
Palm Oil And Fat 8.7%
Vinegar 8.4%
Corn Starch 8.4%
Tomato 8.2%