Is Ancient Harvest Polenta ultra-processed?
It's processed, but not ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Whole foods combined with:
- 8 ingredients
- 1 additive
- Nutri-Score C
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Water, yellow corn meal, salt (processing marker), tartaric acid, ascorbic acid (vitamin c), beta carotene (vitamin a)
Additives: E334 L(+)-tartaric acid
As written on the pack
Water, organic yellow corn meal, salt, tartaric acid*, ascorbic acid (vitamin c), beta carotene (vitamin a).
What makes it processed
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.
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.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0659201102015, last edited 9 January 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.