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Is Sainsbury's Flourish ultra-processed?

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Pack of Sainsbury's Flourish

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:

  • 32 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Maize 30%, Peas, Broad Beans, Rapeseed Oil, Sunflower Oil, Potato Starch, Sugar, Modified Maize Starch, Maize Starch, Rice Flour, Maltodextrin, Salt, Modified Tapioca Starch, Yeast Extract Powder, Wheat Starch, Onion, Smoked Paprika, Flavouring, Thickener (Acacia Gum), Tomato, Colours (Curcumin), Paprika Extract, Garlic, Black Pepper, Acidity Regulator (Citric Acid), Red Pepper, Chilli, Cumin, Oregano

Additives: E100 Curcumin , E160c Paprika extract , E330 Citric acid , E414 Acacia gum

As written on the pack

Maize (30%), Peas, Broad Beans, Rapeseed Oil, Sunflower Oil, Potato Starch, Sugar, Modified Maize Starch, Maize Starch, Rice Flour, Maltodextrin, Salt, Modified Tapioca Starch, Yeast Extract Powder, Wheat Starch, Onion Powder, Smoked Paprika, Flavouring, Thickener: Acacia Gum; Tomato Powder, Colours: Curcumin, Paprika Extract; Garlic Powder, Black Pepper, Acidity Regulator: Citric Acid; Red Pepper, Chilli Powder, Cumin, Oregano.

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.
  • E160c Paprika extract Paprika extract is a red-orange colour extracted from paprika peppers.
  • E414 Acacia gum Gum arabic (acacia gum) is the hardened sap of acacia trees, used to stabilise flavour emulsions in soft drinks and to coat sweets.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.
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  • 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.

  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down 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.

  • 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.

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About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00483759, last edited 27 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.