Is Mrs Cheng's Japanese Soy ultra-processed?

Soy sauces Sold in Sweden

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Flavour enhancer
E621 Monosodium glutamate

8 ingredients
1 additive
Nutri-Score E

Less processed soy sauces

Soy Sauce Kikkoman Foods Europe B.V. 4 ingredients · no additives NOVA group 3
Mörk sojasås Eldorado 5 ingredients · no additives NOVA group 3
Mushroom Flavoured superior dark soy sauce Guangdong PRB Bio-Tech 6 ingredients · no additives NOVA group 3
Katoz Chinese Mushroom Soya Katoz 8 ingredients · 1 additive NOVA group 3

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

Vatten, sojabönor 26%, salt (processing marker), socker (processing marker), vete 12%, smakförstärkare (ultra-processing marker) (e621 (ultra-processing marker)), jästextrakt

Additives: E621 Monosodium glutamate

As written on the pack

Vatten, sojabönor 26%, salt, socker, vete 12% (gluten), smakförstärkare: E621, jästextrakt.

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.

E621 Monosodium glutamate Monosodium glutamate (MSG) is the sodium salt of glutamic acid, made by fermentation and used to strengthen savoury taste.
Flavour enhancer Flavour enhancers such as monosodium glutamate (E621) strengthen savoury taste without adding a flavour of their own.

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 94 soy sauces

From least to most processed, this one ranks 48th. 60% of the soy sauces 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 94 soy sauces, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 7311520010534, last edited 30 July 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 E (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.