Is Itsu Chilli Miso ultra-processed?

Pot noodles Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Itsu Chilli Miso

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:

  • 24 ingredients
  • No additives

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

iro th me fried G Rice noodles with a chilli and ginger miso based broth paste and dried spring onions, with a sesame of soche hand-folded rice noodles (rice), tapioca starch (processing marker), salt) Nagano Valley miso broth paste 35%, Ispring water, he steamed soya beans, rice koji, salt (processing marker), sugar (processing marker), sesame oil (processing marker), rice vinegar, alcohol, yeast extract, shitake mushroom extract, kelp, rice bran oil (processing marker), onion, ginger powder, chilli, coriander leaf, chilli, sesame oil sachet, sesamel dried spring onion Allergy advice

As written on the pack

919 g iro th me fried G Rice noodles with a chilli and ginger miso based broth paste and dried spring onions, with a sesame of soche hand-folded rice noodles: (61%) (rice, tapioca starch, salt) Nagano Valley miso broth paste (35%) Ispring water, he steamed soya beans, rice koji, salt, sugar, sesame oil, rice vinegar, alcohol, yeast extract, shitake mushroom extract, kelp extract, rice bran oil, onion powder, ginger powder, chilli powder, dried coriander leaf, chilli extract). sesame oil sachet (sesamel dried spring onion Allergy advice:

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.
  • 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.

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 20 pot noodles

From least to most processed, this one ranks 2nd. 85% of the pot noodles 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 20 pot noodles, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5061035300218, last edited 14 June 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.
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.