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Is Aunt Bessie's Honey Glazed Parsnips ultra-processed?

500g Root vegetables Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Aunt Bessie's Honey Glazed Parsnips

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:

  • 14 ingredients
  • 5 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed root vegetables

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

Parsnips 85%, Vegetable Oil (Rapeseed Vegetable Oil, Sunflower Vegetable Oil), Palm Oil, Rice Flour, Honey 1%, Maize Flour, Salt, Dextrin, Raising Agents (Diphosphates, Sodium Carbonate), Xanthan Gum

Additives: E1400 Dextrin , E415 Xanthan gum , E450 Diphosphates , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500i Sodium carbonate

As written on the pack

Parsnips (85%), Vegetable Oil (Rapeseed, Sunflower), Palm Oil, Rice Flour, Honey (1%), Maize Flour, Salt, Dextrin, Raising Agents (Diphosphates, Sodium Carbonate), Xanthan Gum.

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.

  • E1400 Dextrin Dextrin is starch partly broken down by heat or acid, used as a thickener, binder and coating.
  • E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
  • E450 Diphosphates Diphosphates are phosphate salts used as raising agents in baking powder, and to hold water in processed meats and cheese.
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.

  • Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 14 root vegetables

From least to most processed, this one ranks 11th. 36% of the root vegetables 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 14 root vegetables, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000227510066, last edited 27 March 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.