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Is Sainsbury's Thai Inspired Green Curry ultra-processed?

180 g Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Sainsbury's Thai Inspired Green Curry

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:

  • 20 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Water, Lemon Grass 12%, Garlic Purée, Green Chilli 8%, Rapeseed Oil, Onion, Galangal, Sugar, Modified Maize Starch, Lime Leaf, Thai Basil 1%, Salt, Coriander Leaf, Chilli, Coriander, Acidity Regulator (Citric Acid), Flavouring, Colour (Copper Chlorophyll)

Additives: E141 Copper complexes of chlorophylls and chlorophyllins , E141i Copper complexes of chlorophylls , E330 Citric acid

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E141 Copper complexes of chlorophylls and chlorophyllins.

As written on the pack

Water, Lemon Grass (12%), Garlic Purée, Green Chilli Purée (8%), Rapeseed Oil, Onion Purée, Galangal, Sugar, Modified Maize Starch, Lime Leaf, Thai Basil (1%), Salt, Coriander Leaf, Chilli Flakes, Coriander Powder, Acidity Regulator: Citric Acid; Flavouring, Colour: Copper Chlorophyll.

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.

  • E141 Copper complexes of chlorophylls and chlorophyllins 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
3 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.

How the NOVA groups work

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00503617, 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.