Is Clearspring White Miso Soup Paste ultra-processed?

60g Dehydrated soups Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Clearspring White Miso Soup Paste

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

  • 19 ingredients
  • No additives

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

White miso 65% (soya beans, rice, sea salt (processing marker), water), mirin (processing marker) (sweet rice, shochu (water, rice), rice, sea salt (processing marker)), sea salt (processing marker), onion, wakame sea vegetable 1%, kombu sea vegetable extract 1% (water, kombu, sea salt (processing marker))

As written on the pack

White miso 65% (whole soya beans, rice, sea salt, water), mirin (sweet rice, shochu (water, cultured rice), cultured rice, sea salt), sea salt, onion purée, wakame sea vegetable 1%, kombu sea vegetable extract 1% (water, kombu, sea salt).

What makes it processed

Processed ingredients

Processed foods in their own right, such as cheese or milk powder.

  • Sauce A prepared sauce used as an ingredient.

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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 55 dehydrated soups

From least to most processed, this one ranks 6th. 84% of the dehydrated soups 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 55 dehydrated soups, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5021554988175, 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.
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.