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Is The TofooCo Southern Fried ultra-processed?

Legumes and their products Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of The TofooCo Southern Fried

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:

  • 26 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score A

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Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Pasteurised tofu pieces in a southern fried breadcrumb coating, Tofu 76% (Water, Soya Beans, Nigari), Wheat Flour, Water, Rapeseed Oil, Wheat Starch, Black Pepper, Dehydrated Onion, Yeast Extract, Salt, Wheat Gluten, Sugar, Fennel, Garlic, Paprika, Yeast, Garlic, White Pepper, Thyme, Colours (Curcumin, Paprika Extract), Flavourings

Additives: E100 Curcumin , E160c Paprika extract

As written on the pack

Pasteurised tofu pieces in a southern fried breadcrumb coating. Tofu (76%) (Water, Soya Beans, Nigari), Wheat Flour, Water, Rapeseed Oil, Wheat Starch, Black Pepper, Dehydrated Onion, Yeast Extract, Salt, Wheat Gluten, Sugar, Fennel, Garlic, Paprika, Yeast, Garlic Powder, White Pepper, Thyme Extract, Colours (Curcumin, Paprika Extract), Flavourings.

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.

  • E100 Curcumin Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
  • E160c Paprika extract Paprika extract is a red-orange colour extracted from paprika peppers.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.

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.

  • Gluten Wheat gluten, sold as "vital wheat gluten", is the protein washed out of wheat flour.
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.
  • 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 1247th. 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 5034467002494, last edited 28 May 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 A (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.