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Is Annie Chun's Thai-Style Peanut Sesame Noodle Bowl ultra-processed?

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Pack of Annie Chun's Thai-Style Peanut Sesame Noodle Bowl

Yes, it's ultra-processed

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

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

  • 40 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed noodles

Less processed isn't automatically healthier, so compare the labels for what matters to you, such as sugar or salt.

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Noodles (water), wheat flour, modified tapioca starch, salt, wheat gluten, lactic acid, sauce (water), peanut butter, cane sugar, dextrose, soy sauce (water, soybeans, wheat, salt), sesame oil, peanut flour, rice vinegar, molasses, garlic puree (garlic, citric acid), sesame paste, peanut oil, spices, red chili, salt, rosemary extract (sunflower oil, rosemary extract), peanuts (peanuts, toppings), cabbage, bok choy, carrot, sesame seeds, glucose

Additives: E270 Lactic acid , E330 Citric acid , E392 Extracts of rosemary

As written on the pack

Noodles: water, wheat flour, modified tapioca starch, salt, wheat gluten, lactic acid. sauce: water, peanut butter, cane sugar, dextrose, soy sauce (water, soybeans, wheat, salt), sesame oil, peanut flour, rice vinegar, molasses, garlic puree (garlic, citric acid), sesame paste, peanut extract oil, spices, crushed red chili flakes, salt, rosemary extract (sunflower oil, rosemary extract). peanuts: dry roasted peanuts. toppings: dehydrated cabbage, dehydrated bok choy, dehydrated carrot, roasted sesame seeds, glucose.

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.

  • Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.

Substances rarely used in home kitchens

Refined or extracted in factories, such as syrups made from starch or isolated proteins. The other hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Gluten Wheat gluten, sold as "vital wheat gluten", is the protein washed out of wheat flour.
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.

  • 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.
  • Sauce A prepared sauce used as an ingredient.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 416 noodles

From least to most processed, this one ranks 218th. 73% of the noodles 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 416 noodles, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0765667100707, last edited 19 June 2024), 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.