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Is Hikari Miso 1Minute Miso Organic Original ultra-processed?

10 oz Soups Sold in the United States

Pack of Hikari Miso 1Minute Miso Organic Original

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:

  • 15 ingredients
  • No additives

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Soybean paste (water, soybeans, rice, sea salt, yeast, koji culture), water, cooking sake, sea salt, sugar, alcohol, yeast extract powder, onion, shiitake mushroom extract

As written on the pack

Soybean paste* (water, soybeans*, rice*, sea salt, yeast, koji culture), water, cooking sake*, sea salt, sugar*, alcohol, yeast extract powder, onion powder*, shiitake mushroom extract.

What makes it processed

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.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

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 722 soups

From least to most processed, this one ranks 80th. 63% of the 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 722 soups, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0858764000220, last edited 11 November 2025), 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.