Is Clearspring Japanese Mellow White Miso Instant Soup 4 x (40g) ultra-processed?
It's processed, but not ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Whole foods combined with:
- 12 ingredients
- No additives
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
miso 89% (soya beans, rice, sea salt (processing marker), barley flour), green onions 7%, tofu 4% (soya beans, kuzu, nigari (coagulant)), 4 x 10g) Contains naturally occuring sugars
As written on the pack
Freeze-dried miso (89%) (whole soya beans, rice, sea salt, roasted barley flour), dried green onions (7%), freeze-dried tofu (4%) (whole soya beans, kuzu, nigari {coagulant}). May contain traces of milk, fish and molluscs 40g (4 x 10g) Contains naturally occuring sugars
What makes it processed
Culinary ingredients
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.
Category rules
Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.
- Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
Among 55 dehydrated soups
From least to most processed, this one ranks 4th. 84% of the dehydrated soups here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5021554985471, last edited 13 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.
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.