About the data
Is it ultra-processed? is a static reference site. It does not make its own judgements about food: every NOVA group, ingredient list and category comes from Open Food Facts, and this site explains and compares them.
Where the data comes from
Open Food Facts is a non-profit, collaborative database of food products from around the world, built by volunteers who scan barcodes and photograph labels. It is published under the Open Database License (ODbL), which allows reuse with attribution. Product photos belong to their contributors and are licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
Each product page links to the product's entry on Open Food Facts. If something is wrong or out of date, correcting it there fixes it for everyone, including this site at its next update.
How the products were chosen
The site is rebuilt from the full Open Food Facts export; this version uses the export of 3 October 2026. A product is included only if it has everything needed for a useful page:
| Products in the export | 4,789,632 |
|---|---|
| No NOVA group computed | −3,623,565 |
| Ingredients not listed in English or Swedish | −620,079 |
| No category | −72,140 |
| No usable product name | −17,440 |
| No parsed ingredient list | −8,919 |
| Other problems (withdrawn products, invalid barcodes, unreadable records) | −271 |
| Eligible products | 447,218 |
| Considered: every product sold in Sweden, then the most scanned of the rest | 150,000 |
| Ingredient list evidently truncated (only "water", or a single additive) | −152 |
| After merging duplicates (same brand and name) | 136,250 |
| Products on this site | 40,000 |
Products are ranked by how many people have scanned them with the Open Food Facts app recently, so the site covers the foods people actually look up. Of the 40,000 products, 631 were added specifically because they are less processed than a popular product in the same category. Without them, many popular products would have no alternative to point to.
Products sold in Sweden are scanned far less often than British or American ones, so on scan counts alone few would make it. The site sets aside up to 20,000 places for them: 5,819 of the 6,142 eligible products are here, 5,053 of them labelled in Swedish, with their names and ingredient lists shown as printed.
Products sold in the United Kingdom (19,747), the United States (12,007), Sweden (5,330), Ireland (1,698), Canada (1,491), Australia (1,274) and New Zealand (498) rank first, and a product page suggests alternatives sold in the same country where it can.
The site also has 1,386 category pages, for categories with enough products to compare, and 323 pages on individual ingredients and additives.
What the NOVA group means here
NOVA groups are computed automatically by Open Food Facts from crowdsourced data, so they are estimates. A missing ingredient, a typo or an outdated recipe can put a product in the wrong group. Read the explanation of NOVA for how the groups are defined and what they do and do not tell you.
Rankings within a category ("least processed first") are our own: products are sorted by NOVA group, then by the number of ultra-processing markers, then by the number of additives and ingredients. That order is a convenience for comparison, not a health score.
Health disclaimer
This site provides general information about food processing. It is not medical, nutritional or dietary advice and should not replace advice from a doctor, dietitian or other qualified professional. Always read the label on the product itself, especially if you have an allergy or intolerance.
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