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Is Raku Sweet potato salad ultra-processed?

Prepared salads Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Raku Sweet potato salad

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:

  • 42 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

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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

Cooked rice (water, rice, sugar, spirit vinegar, rice vinegar, salt, rapeseed oil, fructose-glucose syrup, cane molasses), sweet potato 20% (sweet potato, rapeseed oil), miso sesame dressing 13% (water, sugar, rice vinegar, soya beans, salt, rice, chilli purée, sesame seed oil, alcohol, cornflour, ginger, spirit vinegar, onion, lime juice concentrate, garlic purée, garlic, cayenne pepper), red quinoa (water, red quinoa), shelled edamame beans 10%, carrot 8%, red cabbage 7% (red cabbage, rice vinegar, sugar, salt), spinach 3%

As written on the pack

Cooked rice (water, rice, sugar, spirit vinegar, rice vinegar, salt, rapeseed oil, fructose-glucose syrup, cane molasses) roasted sweet potato (20%) (sweet potato, rapeseed oil), miso sesame dressing (13%) (water, sugar, rice vinegar, soya beans, salt, rice, chilli purée, sesame seed oil, alcohol, cornflour, ginger purée, spirit vinegar, onion purée, lime juice concentrate, garlic purée, garlic powder, cayenne pepper), cooked red quinoa (water, red quinoa), shelled edamame beans (10%) (soya), carrot (8%), pickled red cabbage (7%) (red cabbage, rice vinegar, sugar, salt), spinach (3%).

What makes it ultra-processed

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.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
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.

  • 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.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 224 prepared salads

From least to most processed, this one ranks 121st. 60% of the prepared salads 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 224 prepared salads, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5035272145246, last edited 30 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.