Is it ultra-processed?
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Starches, from least to most processed

We track 14 starches, 7% of them ultra-processed. The least processed is Cornflour.

What makes starches ultra-processed

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

Processed culinary ingredient (13)

  1. 1 Cornflour Tesco · 500 g 2
  2. 2 Corn Starch Argo · 16 oz 2
  3. 3 Corn Flour Brown & Polson · 500g 2
  4. 4 Cornflour Sainsbury's · 500g 2
  5. 5 Cornflour Belbake · 500g 2
  6. 6 Cornflour Morrison’s · 250g 2
  7. 7 Canada Corn Starch Fleischmann's · 454 g 2
  8. 8 Cornflour Asda · 250g 2
  9. 9 Cornflour Doves Farm 2
  10. 10 Non GMO Corn Starch Clabber Girl 2
  11. 11 Potatismjöl Axfood · 500 g 2
  12. 12 Corn Starch Baker's Corner · 454 g 2
  13. 13 Corn Starch maizena Maizena 2

Ultra-processed food (1)

  1. 14 vanilla custard powder Just Whole Foods · 100g 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.