Is Itsu hoisin duck 6 bao buns ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 40 ingredients
- 3 additives
- Nutri-Score C
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Wheat flour, duck breast 18%, water, vegetables 15% (onion, Chinese cabbage, carrot, spring onion), sugar (processing marker), corn starch (processing marker), hoisin sauce 4% (water, sugar (processing marker), soya beans, wheat flour, sesame oil (processing marker), salt (processing marker), garlic, ginger, modified tapioca starch (ultra-processing marker), rice, mixed spices, high maltose syrup, sticky rice, red onion, alcohol, soya oil (processing marker)), soya oil (processing marker), sesame oil (processing marker), salt (processing marker), rice, yeast, soya beans, oyster, raising agents (sodium carbonates), diphosphates (ultra-processing marker), colour (ultra-processing marker) (plain caramel (ultra-processing marker)), orange peel
Additives: E150a Plain caramel , E450 Diphosphates , E500 Sodium carbonates
As written on the pack
Wheat flour, duck breast (18%), water, vegetables (15%) (onion, Chinese leaf cabbage, carrot, spring onion), sugar, corn starch, hoisin sauce (4%) (water, sugar, soya beans, wheat flour, sesame oil, salt, garlic powder, ginger, modified tapioca starch, rice, mixed spices, high maltose syrup, sticky rice, red onion, alcohol, soya oil), soya oil, sesame oil, salt, rice, yeast, soya beans, oyster extract (molluscs), raising agents*: sodium carbonates, diphosphates; colour: plain caramel; orange peel.
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.
- E150a Plain caramel Plain caramel is a brown colour made by heating sugars.
- E450 Diphosphates Diphosphates are phosphate salts used as raising agents in baking powder, and to hold water in processed meats and cheese.
- Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
- Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.
5 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.
- 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.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5060262487143, last edited 27 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.