Is it ultra-processed?
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Dried meals, from least to most processed

We track 82 dried meals, 88% of them ultra-processed. The least processed is Sun-Dried Tomatoes with sea salt.

What makes dried meals ultra-processed

The signs of ultra-processing found most often, and the share of dried meals that contain each:

Processed food (10)

  1. 1 Sun-Dried Tomatoes with sea salt Italiamo · 100 g 3
  2. 2 Shiro Miso Soybean Paste White Twin Dragon · 300 g 3
  3. 3 Tortilla Soup Mix Anderson House · 4.5 oz 3
  4. 4 Japanese Mellow White Miso Instant Soup 4 x (40g) Clearspring · 4 x 10 g 3
  5. 5 Asian vegetable Koyo · 2.1 oz 3
  6. 6 White Miso Soup Paste Clearspring · 60g 3
  7. 7 Brown rice miso soup paste Clearspring · 60g 3
  8. 8 Ramen soup Koyo 3
  9. 9 Rice noodles chick-n ramen Itsu · 64g 3
  10. 10 Ramen Ready Spicy Broth Itsu 3

Ultra-processed food (72)

  1. 11 Chicken Ramen Noodles 65 g 4
  2. 12 Continental Cup a Soup Pumpkin Continental · 61 g 4
  3. 13 Instant miso soup Marukome · 8x19g 4
  4. 14 Chicken Noodle Dry Packet Soup Unilever · 51g 4
  5. 15 Tomat & Basilika Varma Koppen · 3 x 20g 4
  6. 16 Snack Pot Bolognese Knorr · 268g 4
  7. 17 Pasta Snack Pot - Bolognese Unilever Norge AS · 60g 4
  8. 18 Chicken Noodle Lipton · 338 g 4
  9. 19 Thai chilli chicken soup 25 g 4
  10. 20 Newgate Instant Instant noodles Spicy Prawn flavour Lidl · 108 g 4
  11. 21 Mushroom Soup in a Cup with Croutons by Sainsbury's Sainsbury's · 115g (5x23g) 4
  12. 22 Podravka Chicken Noodle Soup Podravka · 1 l 4
  13. 23 Mexican soup Knorr · 64 g 4
  14. 24 Pasta Snack Pot - Arrabbiata Knorr · 66 g 4
  15. 25 Wakame Miso Soup Paste 5 Sachets Yutaka · 5 x 18 g 4
  16. 26 Chicken casserole Schwartz · 36gr 4
  17. 27 Oxtail Soup Sainsbury's · 2 x 400g 4
  18. 28 Oxtail Soup Newgate (Lydl ) · 400g 4
  19. 29 Vegetable Cup Soup with Croutons Tesco · 5x23g 4
  20. 30 Pasta Carbonara Coop · 70 g 4
  21. 31 Asian Style Soup - Tasty Chicken Cup Noodles · 350 ml 63g 4
  22. 32 Super Noodles, Curry Flavour Batchelors · 90g 4
  23. 33 Potatis & Purjolök Varma Koppen · 60 g (3 x 20g) 4
  24. 34 Mac Heaven Mac & Cheese - Cheddar Mac Heaven · 184 g 4
  25. 35 Knorr pasta snack pot Knorr · 62 g 4
  26. 36 Rice Curry Knorr · 73 g 4
  27. 37 Chicken Noodle Cup Soup (Low Fat) Tesco · 5 x 13g 4
  28. 38 Spicy Smoky Dreamy Mac Wicked Kitchen · 80g 4
  29. 39 Grönsakssoppa med pastastjärnor Podravka · 52g 4
  30. 40 Chicken & Vegetable with Croutons Batchelors · 110 g 4
  31. 41 Cup a Soup Cream of Mushroom with Croutons 4 Pack Batchelors · 4 4
  32. 42 Extra Noodle Soup Mix with Real Chicken Flavor Broth Lipton 4
  33. 43 Mama Pa-Lo Duck Flavour Mama · 55g 4
  34. 44 Carbonara with cheese and bacon Knorr · 154 g 4
  35. 45 Bacon & Onion Potato Snack Pot Knorr · 58 g 4
  36. 46 Cup a Soup Cream of Vegetable Batchelors · 122 g 4
  37. 47 Kucharek Zupa Barszcz Czerwony Kucharek · 48 g 4
  38. 48 Flavoursome Roast Chicken Pasta Mug Shot · 55g 4
  39. 49 Noodle Soup Lipton · 4.5 oz./127 g 4
  40. 50 Huel Instant Meal Pots - Katus Huel · 1 Pot 4

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Within each group, products with fewer signs of ultra-processing, additives and ingredients come first. This ordering is ours, for comparison; it is not part of NOVA.