Is Thai green curry sauce ultra-processed?

Curry sauces Sold in the United Kingdom

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Flavouring
Modified starch

54 ingredients
No additives
Nutri-Score D

Less processed curry sauces

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

water coconut cean (1076), creamed coconut (processing marker), gren chilles, lemongrass, onon, sait, ginger, galangal, yelw chilles, comander lagves, cumin, kaffir lime peel, vinegar, coriander seed, white pepper, sugar (processing marker), modified maize starch (ultra-processing marker), concentrated lemon juice miled lemongrasi, garle purée, potato starch (processing marker), green chiles, miled lime ceaves, vegetable bouillon (salt (processing marker), yeast extract, sugar (processing marker), lek powder, onion, natural flavouring (ultra-processing marker), garlic, fish paste (hai fish sauce anchovy fish), salt (processing marker), sugar (processing marker)), fish, sunfower o, sat, sugar (processing marker), onion, garlic, bay, alergen infurmation fur alergens, may aso bambo shots, gree bears, thai green cury paste 6%, garlic, mon 3 days, natural separation is possible so shake well betre use, do get in touch if you have any problems with my sauce lep (15), contains contan uts, sture in a col, dry place

As written on the pack

water coconut cean (1076), creamed coconut. gren chilles, lemongrass, onon, sait, ginger, galangal, yelw chilles, comander lagves, cumin, kaffir lime peel, vinegar, coriander seed, white pepper), sugar, modified maize starch, concentrated lemon juice miled lemongrasi, garle purée, potato starch, green chiles purée,miled lime ceaves, vegetable bouillon (salt, yeast extract, sugar, lek powder,onion powder, natural flavouring, garlic powder, fish paste (hai fish sauce anchovy fish), salt, sugar), fish powder, sunfower o, sat, sugar, onion powder, garlic powder, bay). alergen infurmation fur alergens, see ingredients in bold. may aso bambo shots, gree bears, thai green cury paste (6%) (garlic, mon 3 days. natural separation is possible so shake well betre use. do get in touch if you have any problems with my sauce lep (15) contains contan uts. sture in a col, dry place.

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.

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.

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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 89 curry sauces

From least to most processed, this one ranks 49th. 67% of the curry sauces 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 89 curry sauces, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000183510995, 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 D (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.