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Is Nando's Bag & Bake Easy Flavour Kit Medium ultra-processed?

20 g Mixtures of herbs and spices Sold in the United Kingdom, Australia and France

Pack of Nando's Bag & Bake Easy Flavour Kit Medium

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:

  • 23 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed mixtures of herbs and spices

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

Sugar, potato, starch, salt, modified maize starch, spices (paprika, chilli, African bird's eye chilli), parsley, yeast extract (barley), acidity regulator (citric acid, sodium acetate), sunflower oil, anti-caking agent (silicone dioxide), flavour (lemon), tomato, capsicum extract, garlic

Additives: E262 Sodium acetates , E262i Sodium acetate , E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

Sugar, potato, starch, salt, modified maize starch, spices (paprika, chilli, African bird's eye chilli), parsley, yeast extract (barley), acidity regulator (citric acid, sodium acetate), sunflower oil, anti-caking agent (silicone dioxide), flavour (lemon), tomato, capsicum extract, garlic.

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.

  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.
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.

  • Anti-caking agent Anti-caking agents are substances which reduce the tendency of individual particles of a foodstuff to adhere to one another.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 11 mixtures of herbs and spices

From least to most processed, this one ranks 8th. 55% of the mixtures of herbs and spices 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 11 mixtures of herbs and spices, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 6003770009680, last edited 16 June 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.