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Is Leon Keralan Style Lentil And Chickpea Curry ultra-processed?

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Pack of Leon Keralan Style Lentil And Chickpea Curry

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:

  • 62 ingredients
  • 1 additive

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Brown Lentils 34% (Water, Brown Lentils), Cooked Chickpeas 20% (Water, Chickpeas), Chopped Tomatoes 9% (Tomatoes, Tomato Juice), Coconut Cream (Coconut, Water), Single Cream, Green Beans, Onions, Tomato Paste 4%, Vegetable Oil (Rapeseed Vegetable Oil, Sunflower Vegetable Oil), Ginger, Vegetable Bouillon (Salt, Yeast Extract, Dextrose, Potato Starch, Onion Extract, Carrot Powder, Parsley, Colour (Curcumin), Herb Extracts (Marjoram, Thyme, Sage), Pepper Extract), Cornflour, Cumin Seeds, Green Jalapeno, Garlic Puree, Seasoning (Spices, Coriander, Fenugreek, Turmeric, Caraway, Cayenne Chilli, Cumin, Paprika, Black Pepper), Potato Starch, Salt, Rapeseed Oil, Garlic, Turmeric Powder, Kashmiri Chilli Powder 0.4%, Salt, Cinnamon Powder, Date, Curry, Coriander, Cardamom, Bay Leaf

Additives: E100 Curcumin

As written on the pack

Cooked Brown Lentils (34%) (Water, Brown Lentils), Cooked Chickpeas (20%) (Water, Chickpeas), Chopped Tomatoes (9%) [Tomatoes, Tomato Juice], Coconut Cream (Coconut Extract, Water), Single Cream (MILK) (8%), Green Beans, Onions, Tomato Paste (4%), Vegetable Oil (Rapeseed and/or Sunflower), Ginger Puree, Vegetable Bouillon [Salt, Yeast Extract, Dextrose, Potato Starch, Onion Extract, Carrot Powder, Parsley, Colour (Curcumin), Herb Extracts (Marjoram, Thyme, Sage), Pepper Extract], Cornflour, Cumin Seeds, Green Jalapeno, Roasted Garlic Puree, Seasoning Powder [Ground Spices [Coriander, Fenugreek, Turmeric, Caraway, Cayenne Chilli, Cumin, Paprika, Black Pepper], Potato Starch, Salt, Rapeseed Oil, Garlic Powder], Turmeric Powder, Kashmiri Chilli Powder (0.4%), Salt, Cinnamon Powder, Date Powder, Crushed Curry Leaf, Ground Coriander, Cardamom Powder, Ground Bay Leaf.

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.

  • E100 Curcumin 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.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.

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.
3 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.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

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About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5060699971253, 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.
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.