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Is Lidl Vegetable Samosa ultra-processed?

220 g Vegetable samosas Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Lidl Vegetable Samosa

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:

  • 33 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score A

Less processed salty snacks

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

Ingredients 28% Potato, Peas 24%, Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Carrot 16%, Onion, Rapeseed Oil, Rice Flour, Lemon Juice from Concentrate, Ginger, Salt, Coriander Leaf, Maize Flour, Sugar, Cumin, Poppy Seeds, Coriander, Asafoetida, Yeast Extract, Green Chillies, Cinnamon, Turmeric, Ajwain Powder, Fenugreek, Bay Leaf, Cardamom, Chilli, Cloves, Mint

As written on the pack

Ingredients 28% Potato, 24% Peas, Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), 16% Carrot, Onion, Rapeseed Oil, Rice Flour, Lemon Juice from Concentrate, Ginger Purée, Salt, Coriander Leaf, Maize Flour, Sugar, Dried Cumin, Poppy Seeds, Ground Coriander, Asafoetida Powder, Yeast Extract, Green Chillies, Dried Cinnamon, Ground Turmeric, Ajwain Powder, Ground Fenugreek, Ground Bay Leaf, Ground Cardamom, Chilli Powder, Ground Cloves, Dried Mint.

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.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

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 9 vegetable samosas

From least to most processed, this one ranks 2nd. 33% of the vegetable samosas 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 9 vegetable samosas, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4056489895374, 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 A (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.