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Is Apetit Buffalo Cauliflower Wings ultra-processed?

300 g Sold in Sweden and Finland

Pack of Apetit Buffalo Cauliflower Wings

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:

  • 21 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Cauliflower 65%, rapeseed oil, water, gluten-free breadcrumbs (rice flour, chickpea flour, salt, dextrose), corn starch, spices (including paprika, onion, chili, garlic, cayenne pepper), iodized salt, vinegar, sugar, flavorings, thickener (xanthan)

Additives: E415 Xanthan gum

As written on the pack

Cauliflower 65%, rapeseed oil, water, gluten-free breadcrumbs (rice flour, chickpea flour, salt, dextrose), corn starch, spices (including paprika, onion, chili, garlic, cayenne pepper), iodized salt, vinegar powder, sugar, flavorings, thickener (xanthan)

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.

  • E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.

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.
3 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.

How the NOVA groups work

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 6430104967154, last edited 2 April 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.