Is Amy's 3 Cheese & Kale Bake ultra-processed?
It's processed, but not ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Whole foods combined with:
- 45 ingredients
- No additives
- Nutri-Score C
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
rice pasta (rice flour, filtered water), lowfat milk, white cheddar (processing marker), monterey jack cheeses (processing marker) (milk, culture, salt (processing marker), enzymes), kale, butter (processing marker) (cream, salt (processing marker)), sweet rice flour, filtered water, onions, rice flour, parmesan cheese (processing marker) (pasteurized part-skim milk, culture, salt (processing marker), enzymes), sea salt (processing marker), tapioca starch (processing marker), potatoes, extra virgin olive oil (processing marker), agave syrup, mustard powder, high oleic oil (safflower oil (processing marker), sunflower oil (processing marker)), brown rice vinegar (filtered water, brown rice, salt (processing marker), koji spores), bell peppers, yeast, potato flour, cane sugar (processing marker), spices, rice bran, jalapeño peppers, garlic
As written on the pack
organic rice pasta (organic rice flour, filtered water), organic lowfat milk, white cheddar and monterey jack cheeses (pasteurized milk, culture, salt, enzymes), organic kale, butter (cream, salt), organic sweet rice flour, filtered water, organic onions, organic rice flour, parmesan cheese (pasteurized part-skim milk, culture, salt, enzymes), sea salt, organic tapioca starch, organic potatoes, organic extra virgin olive oil, organic agave syrup, mustard powder, organic high oleic safflower and/or sunflower oil, organic brown rice vinegar (filtered water, organic brown rice, salt, koji spores), organic bell peppers, yeast, organic potato flour, organic cane sugar, spices, organic rice bran extract, organic jalapeño peppers, organic garlic
What makes it processed
Processed ingredients
Processed foods in their own right, such as cheese or milk powder.
- Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.
Culinary ingredients
Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.
- Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
- Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
- Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
- Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
- Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0042272010561, last edited 6 August 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
- Photo: Open Food Facts contributors, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- The NOVA group is an automated estimate from crowdsourced data: a missing or mistyped ingredient can change it.
- NOVA measures processing, not nutrition. For nutrition, Open Food Facts gives this product a Nutri-Score of C (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.