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Is Cuisine Adventures Spanakopita ultra-processed?

1360 g Sold in Canada

Pack of Cuisine Adventures Spanakopita

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:

  • 36 ingredients
  • 6 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Wheat flour, Spinach, Water, Cream cheese, feta, parmesan cheese blend (milk ingredients, milk ingredients, salt, guar gum, xanthan gum, locust bean gum, calcium chloride, lipase, microbial enzyme, bacterial culture, lactic acid, cellulose), Canola oil, Liquid whole egg, Onion, palm, canola oil margarine, Corn starch, Sugars (dextrose, sugar), Modified com starch, Salt, Wheat gluten, Yeast, Yeast extract, cellulose, garlic, Spices, Flavour

Additives: E1104 Lipase , E270 Lactic acid , E410 Locust bean gum , E412 Guar gum , E415 Xanthan gum , E460 Cellulose

As written on the pack

Wheat flour, Spinach, Water, Cream cheese, feta and parmesan cheese blend (milk ingredients, modified milk ingredients, salt, guar gum, xanthan gum, locust bean gum, calcium chloride, lipase, microbial enzyme, bacterial culture, lactic acid, cellulose), Canola oil, Liquid whole egg, Onion, Modified palm and canola oil margarine (contains soy), Corn starch, Sugars (dextrose, sugar), Modified com starch, Salt, Wheat gluten, Yeast, Yeast extract, Modified cellulose, Granulated garlic, Spices, Flavour.

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.

  • E1104 Lipase A food additive authorised for industrial food production.
  • E410 Locust bean gum Locust bean gum (carob gum) is a thickener and stabiliser from the seeds of the carob tree.
  • E412 Guar gum Guar gum is a thickener ground from the seeds of the guar plant.
  • E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
  • E460 Cellulose A food additive used to dissolve, dilute, disperse or otherwise physically modify a food additive or nutrient without altering its function -and without exerting any technological effect itself- in order to facilitate its handling, application or use of the food additive or nutrient.
  • 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.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Gluten Wheat gluten, sold as "vital wheat gluten", is the protein washed out of wheat flour.
  • Palm An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.
  • Milk An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.
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.

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
  • 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.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

How the NOVA groups work

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0770240451749, last edited 3 September 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.
  • NOVA measures processing, not nutrition. For nutrition, Open Food Facts gives this product a Nutri-Score of C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.