Is Vitasia Ready to wok medium soft noodles - Classic ultra-processed?

300 g Noodles Sold in the United Kingdom and Ireland

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Colour
Gluten
Thickener
E101 Riboflavin
E412 Guar gum

11 ingredients
4 additives
Nutri-Score C

Less processed noodles

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

water, wheat flour, wheat gluten (ultra-processing marker), sunflower oil (processing marker), salt (processing marker), acidity regulator (glucono-delta-lactone), thickener (ultra-processing marker) (guar gum (ultra-processing marker)), colour (ultra-processing marker) (riboflavin (ultra-processing marker))

Additives: E101 Riboflavin , E101i Riboflavin , E412 Guar gum , E575 Glucono-delta-lactone

As written on the pack

water, wheat flour, wheat gluten, sunflower oil, salt, acidity regulator: glucono-delta-lactone, thickener: guar gum, colour: riboflavin, allergy advice

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.

E101 Riboflavin 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.
E412 Guar gum Guar gum is a thickener ground from the seeds of the guar plant.
Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.

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.

2 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.
Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 416 noodles

From least to most processed, this one ranks 242nd. 73% of the noodles 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 416 noodles, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 20607074, 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.
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.