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Is Beaverton Foods Inc Creamy style horseradish ultra-processed?

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Pack of Beaverton Foods Inc Creamy style horseradish

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:

  • 20 ingredients
  • 5 additives

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Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Grated horseradish roots, water, soybean oil, white distilled vinegar, high fructose corn syrup, eggs, sugar, modified corn starch, salt, lemon juice, xanthan gum, sodium metabisulfite, sodium benzoate (preservatives), artificial flavor, citric acid, spices, calcium disodium edta (retains product freshness), paprika

Additives: E211 Sodium benzoate , E223 Sodium metabisulphite , E330 Citric acid , E385 Calcium disodium ethylenediaminetetraacetate , E415 Xanthan gum

As written on the pack

Grated horseradish roots, water, soybean oil, white distilled vinegar, high fructose corn syrup, eggs, sugar, modified corn starch, salt, lemon juice, xanthan gum, sodium metabisulfite and sodium benzoate (preservatives), artificial flavor, citric acid, spices, calcium disodium edta (retains product freshness), paprika.

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.

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.

  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • High fructose corn syrup High-fructose corn syrup is made from corn starch: enzymes break it down to glucose and convert part of that into fructose, giving a syrup about as sweet as table sugar.
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.

  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
  • 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 2,962 sauces

From least to most processed, this one ranks 2583rd. 60% of the sauces 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.

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About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0071828011035, last edited 10 December 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.
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.