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Is Kraft Foods Cornbread stuffing mix boxes ultra-processed?

6 oz Stuffing Sold in the United States

Pack of Kraft Foods Cornbread stuffing mix boxes

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:

  • 30 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed stuffing

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

enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate (vitamin b1), riboflavin, folic acid), degerminated yellow cornmeal, high fructose corn syrup, salt, onions, contains less than 2% of vital wheat gluten, interesterified soybean oil, yeast, potassium chloride, celery, monosodium glutamate, parsley* maltodextrin, spice, sugar, hydrolyzed soy protein, turmeric, annatto (color), chicken, natural and artificial flavor, with bha, bht, rosemary extract as preservatives

Additives: E160b Annatto , E320 Butylated hydroxyanisole (bha) , E621 Monosodium glutamate

As written on the pack

enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate (vitamin b1), riboflavin (vitamin b2), folic acid), degerminated yellow cornmeal, high fructose corn syrup, salt, onions*, contains less than 2% of vital wheat gluten, interesterified soybean oil, yeast, potassium chloride, celery*, monosodium glutamate, parsley* maltodextrin, spice, sugar, hydrolyzed soy protein, turmeric and annatto (color), cooked chicken*, natural and artificial flavor, with bha, bht and rosemary extract as preservatives. *dried contains: wheat, soy.

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.

  • E160b Annatto Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
  • E621 Monosodium glutamate Monosodium glutamate (MSG) is the sodium salt of glutamic acid, made by fermentation and used to strengthen savoury taste.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • 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.

  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • High fructose corn syrup High-fructose corn syrup is made from corn starch: enzymes break it down to glucose and convert part of that into fructose, giving a syrup about as sweet as table sugar.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
2 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.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 20 stuffing

From least to most processed, this one ranks 18th. 35% of the stuffing 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 stuffing, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0043000285329, last edited 30 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.
  • 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.