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Is Innofoods Seaweed Clusters ultra-processed?

17 oz Sold in the United States

Pack of Innofoods Seaweed Clusters

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:

  • 32 ingredients
  • 5 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Seaweed Puffs (brown rice four, coconut oil, psyllium husk, seaweed, baking powder (potato starch, monocalcium phosphate, sodium bicarbonate), sea salt), Cane sugar, Sorghum, Pumpkin Seeds, Sunfower Seeds, Coconut Chips, Brown Rice Syrup, Seaweed, Savory Seasoning (garlic, spices, onion, salt, cane sugar, porcini mushroom, natural flavors, yeast extract, chives, citric acid, silicon dioxide), Quinoa Flour, Sea Salt, Red Chilli

Additives: E330 Citric acid , E341 Calcium phosphates , E341i Monocalcium phosphate , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

(Organic*) Seaweed Puffs* [brown rice four*, coconut oil*, psyllium husk powder*, seaweed*, baking powder (potato starch*, monocalcium phosphate, sodium bicarbonate), sea salt], Cane sugar*, Sorghum Flakes*, Pumpkin Seeds*, Sunfower Seeds*, Coconut Chips*, Brown Rice Syrup*, Seaweed Flakes*, Savory Seasoning (garlic powder, spices, onion powder, salt, cane sugar, porcini mushroom powder, natural flavors, yeast extract, dehydrated chives, citric acid, silicon dioxide), Quinoa Flour*, Sea Salt, Red Chilli Powder.

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.

  • Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
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

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0677210093506, last edited 13 August 2024), 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.