Is Daesang America gochujang ultra-processed?

1pcs Cooking helpers Sold in the United States, France and Germany

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Glucose
Sweetener
E1400 Dextrin
E621 Monosodium glutamate

17 ingredients
2 additives
Nutri-Score E

Less processed cooking helpers

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

Water, corn syrup (ultra-processing marker), brown rice, red pepper, sea salt (processing marker), isomalto oligosaccharide (ultra-processing marker), spirts, garlic, soybean, soybean cultured with aspergilus cryzae, soybean, glutrous brown rice flour, onion, monosodium glutamate (ultra-processing marker), yeast extracts, malt, dextrin (ultra-processing marker)

Additives: E1400 Dextrin , E621 Monosodium glutamate

As written on the pack

Water, corn syrup, brown rice, red pepper powder, sea salt, isomalto oligosaccharide, spirts, garlic, soybean, soybean cultured with aspergilus cryzae, roasted soybean powder, glutrous brown rice flour, onion, monosodium glutamate, yeast extracts, seed malt, dextrin.

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.

E1400 Dextrin Dextrin is starch partly broken down by heat or acid, used as a thickener, binder and coating.
E621 Monosodium glutamate Monosodium glutamate (MSG) is the sodium salt of glutamic acid, made by fermentation and used to strengthen savoury taste.
Sweetener Sweeteners give sweetness with few or no calories, many at hundreds of times the strength of sugar.

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.

Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.

1 ingredient 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 219 cooking helpers

From least to most processed, this one ranks 162nd. 73% of the cooking helpers 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 219 cooking helpers, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 8801052801773, last edited 19 July 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 E (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.