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Is Nando's Nandos peri-peri bag and bake lemon & herb ultra-processed?

20 g Cooking helpers Sold in the United Kingdom, Australia and France

Pack of Nando's Nandos peri-peri bag and bake lemon & herb

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:

  • 21 ingredients
  • 6 additives
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed cooking helpers

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, Salt, Potato Starch, Modified Maize Starch, Dextrose, Acidity Regulators (Sodium Diacetate, Citric Acid), Yeast Extract, Herb (Parsley), Spice mix (African Bird's Eye Chilli, Red Chilli), Anti-caking Energy Fat Agents (Silicon Dioxide, of which sat Tricalcium Phosphate), Flavour (Lemon), Sunflower Seed Oil, Turmeric Extract

Additives: E100 Curcumin , E262 Sodium acetates , E262ii Sodium diacetate , E330 Citric acid , E341 Calcium phosphates , E341iii Tricalcium phosphate

As written on the pack

Sugar, Salt, Potato Starch, Modified Maize Starch, Dextrose, Acidity Regulators (Sodium Diacetate, Citric Acid), Yeast Extract, Herb (Parsley), Spice mix (African Bird's Eye Chilli, Red Chilli), Anti-caking Energy Fat Agents (Silicon Dioxide, of which sat Tricalcium Phosphate), Flavour (Lemon), Sunflower Seed Oil, Turmeric Extract.

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.

  • E100 Curcumin Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of 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.

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.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
4 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.
  • 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 219 cooking helpers

From least to most processed, this one ranks 183rd. 73% of the cooking helpers 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.

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About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 6003770009697, last edited 17 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.