Is Taste of India Korma Cooking Sauce ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 25 ingredients
- 1 additive
- Nutri-Score C
Less processed sauces
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
water, tomato purée, single cream 4%, desiccated coconut 4%, sugar (processing marker), creamed coconut (processing marker) 4%, modified maize starch (ultra-processing marker), lemon juice from concentrate, whey powder (ultra-processing marker), double cream, dried onion, salt (processing marker), garlic purée, ginger, acidity regulator (lactic acid), fennel, coriander, cumin, coriander, cassia, cardamom, ground ginger, turmeric, fenugreek
Additives: E270 Lactic acid
As written on the pack
water, reconstituted tomato purée, 4% single cream ( milk ), 4% desiccated coconut, sugar, 4% creamed coconut, modified maize starch, lemon juice from concentrate, whey powder ( milk ), double cream ( milk ), dried onion, salt, garlic purée, ginger purée, acidity regulator: lactic acid, ground fennel, coriander, ground cumin, ground coriander, ground cassia, cardamom, ground ginger, turmeric, dried fenugreek,
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.
- 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.
- Whey Whey is the liquid left over from cheese making, usually dried into a powder and used as a cheap source of milk solids, protein and lactose.
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 fat Vegetable fats are oils that are solid at room temperature, such as palm or coconut fat.
Among 2,962 sauces
From least to most processed, this one ranks 1885th. 60% of the sauces here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 20015831, 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.