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Is Taste of Mexican Style Grains ultra-processed?

250 g Vegetables from Spain Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Taste of Mexican Style Grains

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:

  • 43 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed vegetables from Spain

Less processed isn't automatically healthier, so compare the labels for what matters to you, such as sugar or salt.

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Long Grain Rice 50% (Water, Long Grain Rice), Red Quinoa 17% (Water, Red Quinoa), Sweetcom, Adzuki Beans 6%, Tomato Paste, BBQ Sauce (Sugar, Dried Glucose Syrup, Maize Starch, Smoked Paprika, Tomato, Burnt Sugar Powder, Yeast Extract, Salt, Smoked Salt, Paprika, Acidity Regulator (Citric Acid), Garlic, Black Pepper, Sugar Syrup, Paprika Extract, Chilli), Rapeseed Oil, Red Pepper Paste (Red Pepper, White Wine Vinegar, Rapeseed Oil, Salt), Salt, Chilli, Onion, Garlic Purée, Smoked Paprika, Sugar, White Wine Vinegar, Chilli, Stabiliser (Guar Gum)

Additives: E160c Paprika extract , E330 Citric acid , E412 Guar gum

As written on the pack

50% Cooked Long Grain Rice (Water, Long Grain Rice), 17% Cooked Red Quinoa (Water, Red Quinoa), Sweetcom, 6% Adzuki Beans, Tomato Paste, BBQ Sauce (Sugar, Dried Glucose Syrup, Maize Starch, Smoked Paprika Powder, Tomato Powder, Burnt Sugar Powder, Yeast Extract, Salt, Smoked Salt, Ground Paprika, Acidity Regulator: Citric Acid; Garlic Powder, Ground Black Pepper, Smoked Sugar Syrup, Paprika Extract, Chilli Powder), Rapeseed Oil, Red Pepper Paste (Red Pepper Purée, White Wine Vinegar, Rapeseed Oil, Salt), Salt, Chilli Powder, Onion Powder, Garlic Purée, Smoked Paprika Powder, Sugar, White Wine Vinegar, Chilli Flakes. Stabiliser: Guar Gum.

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.

  • E160c Paprika extract Paprika extract is a red-orange colour extracted from paprika peppers.
  • E412 Guar gum Guar gum is a thickener ground from the seeds of the guar plant.

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.
  • Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
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

Among 37 vegetables from Spain

From least to most processed, this one ranks 36th. 49% of the vegetables from Spain here are ultra-processed.

Ranked by NOVA group, then by the number of ultra-processing signs, additives and ingredients. Our ordering, not part of NOVA.

All 37 vegetables from Spain, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4335619071025, last edited 17 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.