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Is Otoki Jin Ramen Spicy ultra-processed?

120g Instant noodles Sold in Australia, France and 2 more countries

Pack of Otoki Jin Ramen Spicy

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:

  • 55 ingredients
  • 10 additives

Less processed instant 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 8% (wheat flour), modified starch, palm oil, potato starch, wheat gluten, salt acdity reglutors, yeast extract, thickener, colour, soup mix salt, sugar, soy sauce (soybean, wheat, salt), hydrolyzed vegetable proten (soy, whe at, corn), red pepper, spices (red pepper, garlic, onion, green onion, ginger), 631, garlic powder, yeast extract powder, soybean paste, mal todextrin, glucose, black pepper, kelp (kelp, salt, ovster), chilextract, thickener, acidity regulator, vegetable mix (chinese cabbage), textured vegetable protein (soy, wheat), carrot, green onion, mushroom, red pepper, produced in a facility that also processes products containing eggs, peanuts, fish, caustaceans, sesame

Additives: E101 Riboflavin , E1420 Acetylated starch , E14XX Modified Starch , E296 Malic acid , E412 Guar gum , E451 Triphosphates , E501 Potassium carbonates , E621 Monosodium glutamate , E627 Disodium guanylate , E631 Disodium inosinate

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E101 Riboflavin, E1420 Acetylated starch, E412 Guar gum, E451 Triphosphates, E621 Monosodium glutamate, E627 Disodium guanylate, E631 Disodium inosinate.

As written on the pack

noodles (8%) : wheat flour, modified starch (1420), palm oil, potato starch, wheat gluten, salt acdity reglutors (501, 451), yeast extract, thickener (412), colour (101), soup mix salt, sugar, soy sauce powder (soybean, wheat, salt), hydrolyzed vegetable proten (soy, whe at, corn), red pepper, spices (red pepper, garlic, onion, green onion, ginger), flavour enhancers (621, 631, 627), garlic powder, yeast extract powder , soybean paste powder, mal todextrin, glucose, black pepper, kelp extract powder (kelp, salt, ovster), chilextract, thickener (412), acidity regulator (296), dehydrated vegetable mix : chinese cabbage, textured vegetable protein (soy, wheat), carrot, green onion, mushroom, red pepper, contains wheat, soybean, molluscs produced in a facility that also processes products containing eggs, peanuts, fish, caustaceans and sesame,

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.

  • E101 Riboflavin 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.
  • E1420 Acetylated starch Emulsifiers are substances which make it possible to form or maintain a homogenous mixture of two or more immiscible phases such as oil and water in a foodstuff.
  • E14xx Modified Starch Modified starches (E1400 to E1452) are starches treated physically, with enzymes or chemically so that they thicken and hold up to heating, freezing or acidity better than ordinary starch.
  • E412 Guar gum Guar gum is a thickener ground from the seeds of the guar plant.
  • E451 Triphosphates Emulsifiers are substances which make it possible to form or maintain a homogenous mixture of two or more immiscible phases such as oil and water in a foodstuff.
  • E621 Monosodium glutamate Monosodium glutamate (MSG) is the sodium salt of glutamic acid, made by fermentation and used to strengthen savoury taste.
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  • E627 Disodium guanylate Disodium guanylate is a flavour enhancer usually used together with MSG.
  • E631 Disodium inosinate Disodium inosinate is a flavour enhancer usually used together with MSG.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.
  • 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.

  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Gluten Wheat gluten, sold as "vital wheat gluten", is the protein washed out of wheat flour.
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.
  • Sauce A prepared sauce used as an ingredient.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 242 instant noodles

From least to most processed, this one ranks 228th. 93% of the instant 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 242 instant noodles, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 8801045999913, last edited 30 September 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.
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.