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Is Beyond meat, beyond chicken grilled strips ultra-processed?

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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:

  • 25 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score A

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Water, soy protein isolate, pea protein isolate, chicken flavor+ (yeast extract, maltodextrin, natural flavoring, salt, sunflower oil, citric acid), rice flour, canola oil, soy fiber, carrot fiber, and less of 5% (white vinegar), spices, salt, sugar++, molasses powder, dipotassium phosphate, titanium dioxide (for color), potassium chloride, paprika

Additives: E171 Titanium dioxide , E330 Citric acid , E340 Potassium phosphates , E340ii Dipotassium phosphate

As written on the pack

Water, soy protein isolate*, pea protein isolate, chicken flavor+ (yeast extract, maltodextrin, natural flavoring, salt, sunflower oil, citric acid), rice flour, expeller-pressed canola oil*, soy fiber*, carrot fiber, contains 0.5% or less of: white vinegar, spices, salt, sugar++, molasses powder, dipotassium phosphate, titanium dioxide (for color), potassium chloride, 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.

  • E171 Titanium dioxide Titanium dioxide is a white pigment.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • 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.

  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
  • Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
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.
  • 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

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0852629004033, last edited 22 April 2020), 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.