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Is Freshona Baby corn ultra-processed?

190g Canned vegetables Sold in the United States, Germany and Switzerland

Pack of Freshona Baby corn

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:

  • 34 ingredients
  • 8 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed canned vegetables

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

Milk, cream, sugar, sandwich cookies (enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, vitamin b1), riboflavin, folic acid), sugar, vegetable oil (soybean, palm, palm kernel oil), dextrose, corn flour, cocoa processed with alkali, invert sugar, chocolate, baking soda, monocalcium phosphate, salt, corn starch, natural flavor, soy lecithin, whey, corn syrup, egg yolks, vanilla bourbon extract, carob bean gum, guar gum

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E341 Calcium phosphates , E341i Monocalcium phosphate , E410 Locust bean gum , E412 Guar gum , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

Milk, cream, sugar, sandwich cookies (enriched wheat flour [wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate [vitamin b1], riboflavin [vitamin b2], folic acid), sugar, vegetable oil (soybean, palm, palm kernel oil), dextrose, corn flour, cocoa processed with alkali, invert sugar, chocolate, baking soda, monocalcium phosphate, salt, corn starch, natural flavor, soy lecithin, whey), corn syrup, egg yolks, vanilla bourbon extract, carob bean gum, guar gum.

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.

  • E322 Lecithins Lecithins are fatty substances extracted mostly from soybeans, sunflower seeds or eggs, used as emulsifiers to keep fat and water mixed, for example in chocolate.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Invert sugar Invert sugar is ordinary sugar split into glucose and fructose with acid or enzymes.
  • Whey Whey is the liquid left over from cheese making, usually dried into a powder and used as a cheap source of milk solids, protein and lactose.
4 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.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • 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

Among 424 canned vegetables

From least to most processed, this one ranks 424th. 25% of the canned vegetables 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 424 canned vegetables, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 20004262, last edited 28 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.
  • 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.