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Is Marks & Spencer Creamy Veg Curry ultra-processed?

Plant-based meals Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Marks & Spencer Creamy Veg Curry

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:

  • 43 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Cooked Basmati Rice 37% (Water, Basmati Rice), Water, Single Cream, Butternut Squash 9%, Coconut Cream 4.5% (Coconut Water), Onions 4.5%, Red Onions 4.5%, Red Peppers 4.5%, Rapeseed Oil, Tomato Paste, Unsalted Butter, Ginger, Green Beans, Garlic, Spices (Turmeric, Coriander, Cumin, Smoked Paprika, Green Cardamom, Chilli, Coriander, Cumin, Black Pepper, Mace, Fennel Seeds, Sweet Cinnamon (Cassia), Ginger, Cloves), Sugar, Salt, Cornflour, Mango, Black Mustard Seeds, Cumin Seeds, Curry, Green Cardamom, Cracked Black Pepper, Cloves

As written on the pack

Cooked Basmati Rice (37%) (Water. Basmati Rice), Water, Single Cream (Milk), Butternut Squash (9%), Coconut Cream (4.5%), (Coconut Extract Water), Onions (4.5%), Red Onions (4.5%), Red Peppers (4.5%), Rapeseed Oil, Tomato Paste, Unsalted Butter (Milk), Ginger Purée, Green Beans, Garlic, Purée Ground Spices (Turmeric, Coriander, Cumin, Smoked Paprika, Roasted Green Cardamom, Chilli Powder, Roasted Coriander, Roasted Cumin, Roasted Black Pepper, Mace, Roasted Fennel Seeds, Sweet Cinnamon (Cassia), Ginger, Cloves), Sugar, Salt, Cornflour, Dried Mango, Black Mustard Seeds, Cumin Seeds, Curry Leaves, Whole Green Cardamom, Cracked Black Pepper, Cloves

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • 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 65 plant-based meals

From least to most processed, this one ranks 27th. 49% of the plant-based meals 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 65 plant-based meals, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 29104802, 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.