Salad cream is a creamy, pale yellow condiment based on an emulsion of about 25–50 percent oil in water, emulsified by egg yolk and acidulated by spirit vinegar.

Both salad cream and mayonnaise usually include other ingredients such as sugar, mustard, salt, thickener, spices, flavouring and colouring.

[3] The first ready-made commercial product was introduced in the United Kingdom in 1914,[1] where it is used as a salad dressing and a sandwich spread.

Heinz relaunched salad cream a few months later with a £10m advertising campaign, redesigned packs and increased price points.

[6][7] In 2017, Salad Cream was the fifth best-selling table sauce in the UK according to data from Nielsen, with sales of £28.8m.