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Is Ben's Original Street Food Korean BBQ Style ultra-processed?

250g Chinese noodles Sold in the United Kingdom

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:

  • 31 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score A

Less processed chinese 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 52% (water, durum wheat semolina), mushroom 11%, cand red pepper 3.9%, sunflower oil, apple cider vinegar, sugar, sesame seeds, spring onion, doub concentrated tomato paste, garlic, soya sauce (soya sauce (soya beans, wheat), sat maltodextrin), ginger, yeast extract, onion, lemon juice, stabiliser (soya lecithin), chills sunflower oil, cats amanda smoke flavouring, paprika oleoresin (paprika, sunflower oil), thickener (guar gum), garlic br facility also using these ingredients

Additives: E160c Paprika extract , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E412 Guar gum

As written on the pack

cooked noodles (52%) (water, durum wheat semolina), mushroom (11%) cand red pepper (3,9%), sunflower oil, apple cider vinegar, sugar, sesame seeds, spring onion, doub concentrated tomato paste, garlic, soya sauce powder (soya sauce (soya beans, wheat), sat maltodextrin), ginger, yeast extract, onion, lemon juice powder, stabiliser (soya lecithin), chills sunflower oil), may contain: peanuts, barley, cashews, celery, milk, mustard, cats amanda smoke flavouring, paprika oleoresin (paprika, sunflower oil), thickener (guar gum), garlic br facility also using these ingredients,

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.

  • E160c Paprika extract Paprika extract is a red-orange colour extracted from paprika peppers.
  • E322 Lecithins Lecithins are fatty substances extracted mostly from soybeans, sunflower seeds or eggs, used as emulsifiers to keep fat and water mixed, for example in chocolate.
  • E412 Guar gum Guar gum is a thickener ground from the seeds of the guar plant.
  • Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.
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.

  • 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 24 chinese noodles

From least to most processed, this one ranks 19th. 71% of the chinese 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 24 chinese noodles, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4002359040146, last edited 16 March 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
  • 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 A (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.