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Fresh plant-based foods, from least to most processed

We track 71 fresh plant-based foods, 4% of them ultra-processed. The least processed is cucumber.

What makes fresh plant-based foods ultra-processed

The signs of ultra-processing found most often, and the share of fresh plant-based foods that contain each:

Unprocessed or minimally processed (66)

  1. 1 cucumber BiO Organic · 250g 1
  2. 2 Fresh mixed peppers Oaklands · 500g 1
  3. 3 British Cucumber Tesco 1
  4. 4 Pretzel Sticks Trader Joe's · 150g 1
  5. 5 British carrots Oaklands · 1kg 1
  6. 6 Chestnut Mushrooms Tesco · 250 g 1
  7. 7 Vittoria Cherry Vine Tomatoes Sainsbury's · 270 g 1
  8. 8 Classic Peeled Carrots Bolthouse Farms · 340 g 1
  9. 9 Baby Spinach Lidl · 240 g 1
  10. 10 Closed cup chestnut mushrooms Sainsbury's · 300g 1
  11. 11 Campari Fair Trade Sunset · 8x2 Lb 1
  12. 12 Cocktail Tomatoes On The Vine Lidl · 500g 1
  13. 13 Sweet vine ripened tomatoes Tesco 1
  14. 14 Carrots Aldi · 1 kg 1
  15. 15 Classic round tomatoes Sainsbury's · 400g 1
  16. 16 British Closed Cup Mushrooms Natures Pick (Aldi) 1
  17. 17 British Chestnut Mushrooms Nature's Pick · 250g 1
  18. 18 Sweet Potatoes Aldi · 1kg 1
  19. 19 Tomatoes Tesco · 100k 1
  20. 20 Baby corn Tesco · 130g 1
  21. 21 Broccoli Asda · 360g 1
  22. 22 British Carrots Sainsbury's · 1kg 1
  23. 23 Baby Spinach Sainsbury's · 100g 1
  24. 24 Cucumber The co-operative · 300/350g 1
  25. 25 Pak Choi Oaklands · 2 pcs 1
  26. 26 Leaf spinach Tesco · 900 g 1
  27. 27 Babyplommontomater ICA · 250 g 1
  28. 28 Baby plum tomatoes Morrisons 1
  29. 29 Salad tomato Tesco · 6 tomatoes 1
  30. 30 Parsnips Oaklands · 500 g 1
  31. 31 red onions Oaklands · 750g 1
  32. 32 Fresh Baby Plum Tomatoes Oaklands Oaklands · 250g 1
  33. 33 Cebollas grandes Oaklands · 3 1
  34. 34 Cauliflower Sainsbury's · 1 1
  35. 35 Red Onions Asda · 4 1
  36. 36 Iceberg Lettuce Foxy · 1 Medium Head 1
  37. 37 Broccoli Morrisons · 350 g 1
  38. 38 Cherry Tomatos Tesco 1
  39. 39 Aparagus Spears Aldi 1
  40. 40 Cherubs Heavenly Snacking Tomatoes NatureSweet 1

Showing the first 40 of 66. The narrower categories above, or search, find the rest.

Processed food (2)

  1. 67 Sweet & Fiery Beetroot Tesco finest 3
  2. 68 Freshona Sliced mushrooms in water Freshona · 284 g 3

Ultra-processed food (3)

  1. 69 Kumato Trader Joe's · 255 g 4
  2. 70 Red Beans & Rice Zatarain's · 226 g 4
  3. 71 Wild Mushroom Pie Pieminister · 270g 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.