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Is Amy's Thai Pad Thai ultra-processed?

269 g Vegetable based frozen ready-made meals Sold in the United States

Pack of Amy's Thai Pad Thai

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

  • 32 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

rice noodles (rice, filtered water, tapioca starch), broccoli, cane sugar, tofu (filtered water, soybeans, magnesium chloride), carrots, filtered water, green onions, tamari (water, soybeans, salt, alcohol), brown rice vinegar (water, brown rice), cashews, expeller pressed high oleic oil (safflower oil, sunflower oil), red onions, paprika, tamarind, sea salt, garlic, distilled vinegar, black pepper

As written on the pack

ORGANIC RICE NOODLES (ORGANIC RICE, FILTERED WATER, ORGANIC TAPIOCA STARCH), ORGANIC BROCCOLI, ORGANIC CANE SUGAR, ORGANIC TOFU (FILTERED WATER, ORGANIC SOYBEANS, MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE), ORGANIC CARROTS, FILTERED WATER, ORGANIC GREEN ONIONS, ORGANIC TAMARI (WATER, ORGANIC SOYBEANS, SALT, ORGANIC ALCOHOL). ORGANIC BROWN RICE VINEGAR (WATER, ORGANIC BROWN RICE), ORGANIC CASHEWS, EXPELLER PRESSED HIGH OLEIC SAFFLOWER AND/OR SUNFLOWER OIL, ORGANIC RED ONIONS, PAPRIKA, TAMARIND EXTRACT, SEA SALT, ORGANIC GARLIC, ORGANIC DISTILLED VINEGAR, BLACK PEPPER

What makes it processed

Processed ingredients

Processed foods in their own right, such as cheese or milk powder.

  • Sauce A prepared sauce used as an ingredient.

Culinary ingredients

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

  • 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.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 9 vegetable based frozen ready-made meals

From least to most processed, this one ranks 3rd. 56% of the vegetable based frozen ready-made meals here are ultra-processed.

Ranked by NOVA group, then by the number of ultra-processing signs, additives and ingredients. Our ordering, not part of NOVA.

All 9 vegetable based frozen ready-made meals, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0042272009244, last edited 16 May 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.