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Is Trader Joe's Palak Paneer ultra-processed?

10 oz (248 g) Sold in the United States

Pack of Trader Joe's Palak Paneer

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:

  • 30 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Spinach, paneer (milk, part skim milk, vinegar, salt), onions, tomatoes (tomatoes, tomato juice, salt, citric acid), canola oil, broccoli, cream, water, spices, tomato puree (water, tomato paste), nonfat milk powder, garlic, salt, peppers, chickpea flour, sugar, turmeric, ghee (clarified butter), fenugreek leaves

Additives: E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

Spinach, paneer (milk, part skim milk, vinegar, salt), onions, tomatoes (tomatoes, tomato juice, salt, citric acid), canola oil, broccoli, cream, water, spices, tomato puree (water, tomato paste), nonfat milk powder, garlic, salt, peppers, chickpea flour, sugar, turmeric, ghee (clarified butter [milk]), fenugreek leaves.

What makes it processed

Processed ingredients

Processed foods in their own right, such as cheese or milk powder.

  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.
  • Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.

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.

How the NOVA groups work

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00958127, last edited 7 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.