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Is Vistasia Bao Buns Jackfruit ultra-processed?

160 gram Refrigerated meals Sold in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands

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:

  • 52 ingredients
  • 6 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

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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

Steamed Buns 60% (Wheat Flour, Water, Sugar, Baking Fat (Palm Stearin Oil, Antioxidant (Alpha-Tocopherol)), Maize Starch, Yeast (Yeast, Emulsifier (Sorbitan Monostearate)), Baking Powder (Tapioca Starch, Raising Agents (Sodium Carbonates), Calcium Phosphates, Emulsifier (Diphosphates)), Salt, Fully Refined Soybean Oil), Vegetable Blend 31% (Jackfruit 9.92%, Red Pepper, Yellow Pepper, Onion, Potato, Leek, Garlic), Spiced Tomato Sauce 4.1% (Tomato Paste, Sugar, Sugar Cane Vinegar, Salt, Spice Oil Extracts (Bell Peppers, Onion, Clove, Celery, Cinnamon, Garlic), Water), Fully Refined Soybean Oil, Potato Starch, Sugar, Salt, Maltodextrin (Maltodextrin, Smoke Flavouring, Anti-Caking Agent (Silicon Dioxide))

Additives: E307 Alpha-tocopherol , E341 Calcium phosphates , E450 Diphosphates , E491 Sorbitan monostearate , E500 Sodium carbonates , E551 Silicon dioxide

As written on the pack

60% Steamed Buns (Wheat Flour, Water, Sugar, Baking Fat [Palm Stearin Oil, Antioxidant: Alpha-Tocopherol], Maize Starch, Yeast [Yeast, Emulsifier: Sorbitan Monostearate], Baking Powder [Tapioca Starch, Raising Agents: Sodium Carbonates, Calcium Phosphates; Emulsifier: Diphosphates], Salt, Fully Refined Soybean Oil), 31% Vegetable Blend (32% Jackfruit, Red Pepper, Yellow Pepper, Onion, Potato, Leek, Garlic), 4.1% Spiced Tomato Sauce (Tomato Paste, Sugar, Sugar Cane Vinegar, Salt, Spice Oil Extracts [Bell Peppers, Onion, Clove, Celery, Cinnamon, Garlic], Water), Fully Refined Soybean Oil, Potato Starch, Sugar, Salt, Smoked Maltodextrin (Maltodextrin, Smoke Flavouring, Anti-Caking Agent: Silicon Dioxide).

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.

  • E450 Diphosphates Diphosphates are phosphate salts used as raising agents in baking powder, and to hold water in processed meats and cheese.
  • E491 Sorbitan monostearate Emulsifiers are substances which make it possible to form or maintain a homogenous mixture of two or more immiscible phases such as oil and water in a foodstuff.
  • E551 Silicon dioxide A food additive used to dissolve, dilute, disperse or otherwise physically modify a food additive or nutrient without altering its function -and without exerting any technological effect itself- in order to facilitate its handling, application or use of the food additive or nutrient.
  • Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.
  • 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.

  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
5 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.

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
  • Anti-caking agent Anti-caking agents are substances which reduce the tendency of individual particles of a foodstuff to adhere to one another.
  • 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 44 refrigerated meals

From least to most processed, this one ranks 41st. 61% of the refrigerated meals 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 44 refrigerated meals, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4056489940357, 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.
  • 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.