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Is Strong Roots The Pumpkin & Spinach ultra-processed?

300g Sold in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Australia

Pack of Strong Roots The Pumpkin & Spinach

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:

  • 36 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

long grain brown rice 24% (water, rice), pumpkin 17%, spinach 17%, quinoa 12% (rice flour, gram flour, quinoa, maize starch, salt), coating (potato starch, maize starch, maize flour), water, rapeseed oil, potato, cornflour, onions (onions, rapeseed oil), garlic, salt, vegetable bouillon (sea salt, potato starch, rice flour, yeast extract, onion, garlic, herbs, spices, spice extract), garlic, curry

As written on the pack

long grain brown rice 24% (water, rice), pumpkin 17%, spinach 17%, quinoa crumb 12% (rice flour, gram flour, puffed quinoa, maize starch, salt), gluten free coating (potato starch, maize starch, maize flour), water, rapeseed oil, dehydrated potato, cornflour, onions (onions, rapeseed oil), garlic, salt, vegetable bouillon (sea salt, potato starch, rice flour, yeast extract, onion powder, garlic powder, herbs, spices, spice extract), garlic powder, curry powder,

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.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.

How the NOVA groups work

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5391528181070, 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.