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Is The Tofoo Co. Lightly Spiced Pieces ultra-processed?

180 g Legumes and their products Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of The Tofoo Co. Lightly Spiced Pieces

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:

  • 17 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score B

Less processed legumes and their products

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

Tofu 79% (Water, Soya Beans, Nigari), Cornflour, Rapeseed Oil, Seasoning Mix 3.5% (Salt, Dried Onion, Garlic, Smoked Paprika, Light Brown Sugar (White Sugar, Cane Molasses), Yeast Extract, Cracked Black Pepper, Parsley)

As written on the pack

Tofu (79%) (Water, Soya Beans, Nigari), Cornflour, Rapeseed Oil, Seasoning Mix (3.5%) (Salt, Dried Onion, Garlic Powder, Smoked Paprika, Light Brown Sugar (White Sugar, Cane Molasses), Yeast Extract, Cracked Black Pepper, Dried Parsley).

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.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • Tofu Products in the category "Tofu" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 1,285 legumes and their products

From least to most processed, this one ranks 732nd. 37% of the legumes and their products 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 1,285 legumes and their products, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5034467001985, last edited 4 July 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 B (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.