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Freeze-dried foods, from least to most processed

We track 12 freeze-dried foods, 17% of them ultra-processed. The least processed is Freeze Dried Instant Coffee.

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What makes freeze-dried foods ultra-processed

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

Unprocessed or minimally processed (10)

  1. 1 Freeze Dried Instant Coffee Bellarom · 200g 1
  2. 2 Instant coffee Moccona · 400g 1
  3. 3 Douwe Egberts Pure Gold Coffee 95G Douwe Egberts · 95g 1
  4. 4 Moccona Freeze Dried Instant Coffee Classic Medium Roast Moccona · 200 g 1
  5. 5 Freeze Dried Raspberries Trader Joe's · 2 oz 1
  6. 6 Crunchy Pineapple Chips Branch Out · 7 oz 1
  7. 7 Colombian instant coffee Aldi · 100g 1
  8. 8 Millicano Americano Original Kenco · 100g 1
  9. 9 Frystorkade mango Supernova freeze · 50g 1
  10. 10 Stutz Packing Co. Basic American Foods · 16 oz (1LB) 1

Ultra-processed food (2)

  1. 11 Hot & Sour Tomato Soup Muji · 4x6 g 4
  2. 12 Freeze Dried Pasta Primavera Mountain House · 4.80 OZ (135g) 4

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.