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Is Naked Ultimate Korean Style Chicken Noodles ultra-processed?

Noodles Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Naked Ultimate Korean Style Chicken Noodles

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:

  • 53 ingredients
  • 6 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed noodles

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

Noodles (wheatflour, Palm Oil, Salt, Potassium Carbonate, Sodium Carbonate), Korean Style Chicken Sauce 28% (Soy Sauce (Water, SOYA Beans, Salt, Spirit Vinegar), Water, Garlic Purée, Glucose Syrup, Brown Sugar (Sugar, Cane Molasses), Ginger, Tomato Paste, Rice Vinegar, Sherry Vinegar, Rapeseed Oil, Cornflour, Spirit Vinegar, Black Bean Pellets (Black Beans (SOYA Beans, Water, Salt), Salt), Chicken Stock (Flavouring, Dried Glucose Syrup, Salt, Yeast Extracts, Sugar, Chicken Stock), Lime Juice, Onion Powder, Red Bell Paprika Extract, Black Pepper, Potassium Sorbate, Yeast Extract (Yeast Peppers, Sugar, Salt, White Wine Vinegar, Cayenne Pepper, Natural Flavouring, Extract, Sweet Potato Maltodextrin)), Onion Topper 11%

Additives: E160c Paprika extract , E202 Potassium sorbate , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500i Sodium carbonate , E501 Potassium carbonates , E501i Potassium carbonate

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E160c Paprika extract.

As written on the pack

Dried Noodles [WHEATFLOUR, Palm Oil, Salt, Raising Agents (Potassium Carbonate, Sodium Carbonate)], Korean Style Chicken Sauce (28%) [Soy Sauce (Water, SOYA Beans, Salt, Spirit Vinegar), Water, Garlic Purée, Glucose Syrup, Brown Sugar (Sugar, Cane Molasses), Ginger Purée, Tomato Paste, Rice Vinegar, Sherry Vinegar, Rapeseed Oil, Cornflour, Spirit Vinegar, Black Bean Pellets (Black Beans (SOYA Beans, Water, Salt), Salt), Chicken Stock (Flavouring, Dried Glucose Syrup, Salt, Yeast Extracts, Sugar, Chicken Stock), Lime Juice, Onion Powder, Red Bell Paprika Extract, Black Pepper, Preservative (Potassium Sorbate), Yeast Extract (Yeast Peppers, Sugar, Salt, White Wine Vinegar, Cayenne Pepper, Natural Flavouring, Extract, Sweet Potato Maltodextrin)], Onion Topper (11%)

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.

  • E160c Paprika extract Paprika extract is a red-orange colour extracted from paprika peppers.
  • 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.
  • Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
5 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.

  • E202 Potassium sorbate Preservatives are substances which prolong the shelf-life of foods by protecting them against deterioration caused by micro-organisms and/or which protect against growth of pathogenic micro-organisms.
  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Sauce A prepared sauce used as an ingredient.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 416 noodles

From least to most processed, this one ranks 230th. 73% of the noodles 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 416 noodles, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5050665050693, last edited 5 August 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.