Is Amy's Bowls Broccoli & Cheddar Bake ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 32 ingredients
- 1 additive
- Nutri-Score C
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
rice pasta (rice flour, filtered water, potato starch (processing marker), rice starch (processing marker), soy flour), lowfat milk, broccoli, white cheddar cheese (processing marker) (milk, culture, salt (processing marker), enzymes), rice flour, filtered water, butter (processing marker) (cream, salt (processing marker)), sweet rice flour, tapioca starch (processing marker), potatoes, extra virgin olive oil (processing marker), sea salt (processing marker), agave syrup, high oleic oil (safflower oil (processing marker), sunflower oil (processing marker)), yeast, potato flour, annatto (ultra-processing marker) (color (ultra-processing marker)), rice bran
Additives: E160b Annatto
As written on the pack
rice pasta (organic rice flour, filtered water, organic potato starch, rice starch, organic soy flour), organic lowfat milk, organic broccoli, white cheddar cheese (pasteurized milk, culture, salt, enzymes), organic rice flour, filtered water, butter (cream, salt), organic sweet rice flour, organic tapioca starch, organic potatoes, organic extra virgin olive oil, sea salt, organic agave syrup, organic high oleic safflower and/or sunflower oil, yeast, organic potato flour, organic annatto (color), organic rice bran extract
What makes it ultra-processed
Cosmetic additives
Added to change how the food looks, feels or tastes, not to keep it safe. A hallmark of ultra-processed food.
- E160b Annatto Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
- Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
5 ingredients that would only make it processed
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.
- Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
- Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0042272008117, last edited 30 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.