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Is Knorr Fish Stock ultra-processed?

2pcs Dehydrated broths Sold in the United Kingdom and Germany

Pack of Knorr Fish Stock

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:

  • 24 ingredients
  • No additives

Less processed dehydrated broths

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

salt, vegetable fats (palm, shea butter, sal butter), potato starch, fish 5.5%, yeast extract, sugar, onion powder, garlic powder, flavourings, herbs (parsley, tarragon), spices (parsley roots, celery seeds), fish, fish oil, dextrose, fish (herring), smoke flavouring

As written on the pack

salt, vegetable fats (palm, shea butter, sal butter), potato starch, fish powder (5.5%), yeast extract, sugar, onion powder, garlic powder, flavourings, herbs (parsley, tarragon), spices (parsley roots, celery seeds), fish extract powder, fish oil, dextrose, fish (herring), smoke flavouring.

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.

  • 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 fat Vegetable fats are oils that are solid at room temperature, such as palm or coconut fat.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 110 dehydrated broths

From least to most processed, this one ranks 76th. 73% of the dehydrated broths 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 110 dehydrated broths, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000184161172, last edited 7 August 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.