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Is Tilda Easy Meals Chickpea Korma ultra-processed?

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Pack of Tilda Easy Meals Chickpea Korma

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:

  • 55 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score C

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Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Cooked Chickpeas 40%, Coconut Cream 24% (Coconut, Water), Sweet Potato 7%, Potato 6%, Single Cream, milk, Curry Paste 4% (Glucose Syrup, Spices (Cumin, Coriander, Fennel, Turmeric, Fenugreek, Cardamom), Rapeseed Oil, Salt, Tomato Paste, Garlic Puree, Dried Onion, SOY Sauce (Water, soybeans, wheat, Salt), Water, Ginger), Onion, Onion, Korma Flavour Seasoning 2%, Spices, Garlic, Onion, Rice Flour, Natural Flavouring, Salt, Chilli Blend (Chilli, Cumin, Salt, Garlic, Oregano), Herb (Bay), Desiccated Coconut 1.2%, Pea Protein, Garlic Puree, Ginger, Onion, Tapioca Starch, Turmeric Extract, Curry, Garlic

Additives: E100 Curcumin

As written on the pack

Cooked Chickpeas (40%), Coconut Cream (24%) (Coconut Extract, Water), Sweet Potato (7%), Potato (6%), Single Cream (MILK, Curry Paste (4%) (Glucose Syrup, Ground Spices (Cumin, Coriander, Fennel, Turmeric, Fenugreek, Cardamom), Rapeseed Oil, Salt, Tomato Paste, Garlic Puree, Dried Onion, SOY Sauce (Water, SOYBEANS, WHEAT, Salt), Water, Ginger Puree), Onion, Onion Puree, Korma Flavour Seasoning (2%)(Spices, Garlic Powder, Onion Powder, Rice Flour, Natural Flavouring, Salt, Chilli Blend (Chilli, Cumin, Salt, Garlic, Oregano), Herb (Bay), Desiccated Coconut (1.2%), Pea Protein Powder, Garlic Puree, Ginger Puree, Onion Powder, Tapioca Starch, Turmeric Extract, Crushed Curry Leaf, Garlic Powder.

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.
  • 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.

  • 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.
  • Sauce A prepared sauce used as an ingredient.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 698 meat alternatives

From least to most processed, this one ranks 441st. 72% of the meat alternatives 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 698 meat alternatives, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5011157997933, last edited 27 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.