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Is Plant Menu Lentil and Chickpea Curry ultra-processed?

Lentil dishes Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Plant Menu Lentil and Chickpea Curry

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

  • 33 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score B

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Water, Onion, chickpeas 12%, Red Peppers, Carrot, Coconut Milk, Potato, Desiccated Coconut, red lentils 4%, Tomato Purée, Cornflour, green lentils 2%, Rapeseed Oil, Garlic Purée, Ginger, Lemon Juice, Sugar, Salt, Coriander, Cumin, Turmeric, Cardamom, Smoked Paprika, Ground Cassia Cinnamon, Cayenne Pepper, Paprika, Star Anise, Black Pepper, Ground Ginger, Pimento, Bay Leaf, Ground Nutmeg, Ground Cloves

As written on the pack

Water, Onion, CHICKPEAS (12%), Red Peppers, Carrot, Coconut Milk, Potato, Desiccated Coconut, RED LENTILS (4%), Tomato Purée, Cornflour, GREEN LENTILS (2%), Rapeseed Oil, Garlic Purée, Ginger Purée, Lemon Juice, Sugar, Salt, Ground Coriander, Ground Cumin, Ground Turmeric, Ground Cardamom, Ground Smoked Paprika, Ground Cassia Cinnamon, Ground Cayenne Pepper, Ground Paprika, Ground Star Anise, Ground Black Pepper, Ground Ginger, Ground Pimento, Ground Bay Leaf, Ground Nutmeg, Ground Cloves

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 14 lentil dishes

From least to most processed, this one ranks 2nd. 79% of the lentil dishes 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 14 lentil dishes, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4061459047615, last edited 14 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 B (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.