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Is Spicefield Vegetable dumplings ultra-processed?

400 g Sold in Sweden

Pack of Spicefield Vegetable dumplings

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:

  • 33 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Fyllning (Grönsaker, vitkål), lök, kinesisk gräslök, vitlök, vatten, tofu (sojabönor), sojasás (salt, sojabönor, vetemiöl, socker, maltodextrin), sötpotatisnudlar (potatisstärkelse, vatten), rostad sesamolla, solaproteln, kryddor och örter, druvsocker, socker, salt, maltodextrin, Jästextrakt, potatisfiber, Ingefära, Deg (Vetemjöl), vatten, rapsolja, salt

As written on the pack

Fyllning: Grönsaker (vitkål, lök, kinesisk gräslök, vitlök), vatten, tofu (sojabönor), sojasás (salt, sojabönor, vetemiöl, socker, maltodextrin), sötpotatisnudlar (sötpotatisstärkelse, vatten), rostad sesamolla, solaproteln, kryddor och örter, druvsocker, socker, salt, maltodextrin, Jästextrakt, potatisfiber, Ingefära. Deg:Vetemjöl, vatten, rapsolja, salt.

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.
  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
  • Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
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.
  • 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 7611612120807, last edited 2 April 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.