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Is Waitrose 4 Vegetable Samosas ultra-processed?

220g Vegetable samosas Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Waitrose 4 Vegetable Samosas

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:

  • 26 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed salty snacks

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

vegetables 52% (potato, onion, carrot), wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), peas 14%, rapeseed oil, salt, ginger, cumin seeds, turmeric powder, cumin, sugar, chilli, fenugreek leaf, kalonji seeds, poppy seeds, cardamom, white pepper, clove, ginger powder

As written on the pack

Diced vegetables 52% (potato, onion, carrot), wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), peas 14%, rapeseed oil, salt, ginger purée, cumin seeds, turmeric powder, cumin powder, sugar, chilli powder, fenugreek leaf, kalonji seeds, poppy seeds, cardamom powder, ground white pepper, clove powder, ginger powder

What makes it processed

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.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 9 vegetable samosas

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1st. 33% of the vegetable samosas 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 9 vegetable samosas, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5063210020812, 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.