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Is Greendeli Falafelsallad med couscous ultra-processed?

305 g Prepared salads Sold in Sweden

Pack of Greendeli Falafelsallad med couscous

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:

  • 59 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed prepared salads

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

Couscousmix 43% (couscous 21.07% (durumvete, vatten, rapsolja, salt), kikärtor 6.02% (kikärtor, vatten), röda kidneybönor 3.2680000000000002% (röda kidneybönor, salt), rapsolja, citronjuicekoncentrat, morot, russin 1.9779999999999998% (russin, solrosolja), paprika, kryddblandning (salt, dextros, spiskummin, tomat, koriander, paprika, vitlök, svartpeppar, lök, kanel, persilja, arom), chili, bladpersilja, gurkmeja, torkad lök), salladsmix 25% (isbergssallad, friséesallad, rosésallad), falafel 16% (kikärtor, vatten, rapsolja, lök, persilja, rismjöl, koriander, salt, vitlök, kummin, soda), morot 16% (morot, socker, vatten, ättiksprit, salt, naturlig arom)

As written on the pack

Couscousmix 43 % (couscous 49 % (durumvete, vatten, rapsolja, salt), kikärtor 14 % (kikärtor, vatten), röda kidneybönor 7,6 % (röda kidneybönor, salt), rapsolja, citronjuicekoncentrat, morot, russin 4,6 % (russin, solrosolja), paprika, kryddblandning (salt, dextros, spiskummin, tomatbitar, koriander, paprikabitar, vitlök, svartpeppar, lök, kanel, persilja, arom), chili, bladpersilja, gurkmeja, torkad lök), salladsmix 25 % (isbergssallad, friséesallad, rosésallad), falafel 16 % (kikärtor, vatten, rapsolja, lök, persilja, rismjöl, koriander, salt, vitlök, kummin, soda), picklad morot 16 % (morot, socker, vatten, ättiksprit, salt, naturlig arom).

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.

  • 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.
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.

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • 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 224 prepared salads

From least to most processed, this one ranks 158th. 60% of the prepared salads 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 224 prepared salads, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 7340191400924, last edited 2 April 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.