SAINSBURY'S · INGREDIENT FREQUENCY
What's in Sainsbury's's products?
We scored 4,968 Sainsbury's products from our UK supermarket index (3,457 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 — 3,457 scored Sainsbury's products
80+
805
23.3%
60-79
326
9.4%
40-59
609
17.6%
<40
1,717
49.7%
Most common additives in Sainsbury's's shelf
% = of Sainsbury's products that contain at least one mention of this additive in their ingredient list.
- Citric acid (E330) 364 9.1%
- Lecithin (E322) 278 6.9%
- Sodium carbonate / bicarb (E500) 249 6.2%
- E322I 204 5.1%
- Ascorbic acid / Vitamin C (E300) 202 5%
- E500II 179 4.5%
- Diphosphates (E450) 174 4.3%
- Paprika extract (E160c) 164 4.1%
- Mono- and diglycerides (E471) 156 3.9%
- Potassium sorbate (E202) 132 3.3%
- E250 121 3%
- E440 119 3%
- E422 118 2.9%
- Xanthan gum (E415) 102 2.5%
- E450I 94 2.3%
- E503 91 2.3%
- E301 88 2.2%
- E331 87 2.2%
- Beta-carotene (E160a) 79 2%
- E270 73 1.8%
Most common ingredients on Sainsbury's'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 Sainsbury's shelf".
Salt 40.9%
Sugar 32%
Water 30%
Flour 26.2%
Dairy 21.9%
Wheat 20.7%
Rapeseed Oil 19.4%
Wheat Flour 17.4%
Milk 17.3%
Seed 16.6%
Starch 15.5%
Vegetable Oil 14.9%
Thiamin 14.8%
Iron 14.6%
Cow S Milk 13.4%
Plant 12.9%
Yeast 12.5%
Garlic 12.2%
Onion 12.1%
Pepper 11.8%
Glucose 11.7%
Corn 10.9%
Palm Oil And Fat 10%
Palm Oil 9.4%