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Is Waitrose Green Thai Style Curry ultra-processed?

Rice dishes Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Waitrose Green Thai Style Curry

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:

  • 48 ingredients
  • No 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

Cooked sticky rice (water, long grain rice, rapeseed oil, pandan leaf, salt, lime leaf), water, roasted soya strips 11% (water, soya protein, sunflower oil, dextrose, flavourings, salt, potato starch, paprika, white pepper, ground ginger, nutmeg, mace, cardamom), coconut, babycorn, red pepper, onion, rapeseed oil, sugar, green beans, garlic purée, lemongrass, green chilli, galangal, lemon juice, sunflower oil, coriander leaf, ginger, salt, shallot, coriander leaf, lime leaf, cornflour, tamarind paste, makrut lime peel, basil, turmeric, coriander, cumin

As written on the pack

Cooked sticky rice (water, long grain rice, rapeseed oil, pandan leaf, salt, whole lime leaf), water, roasted soya strips (11%) (water, soya protein concentrate, sunflower oil, dextrose, flavourings, salt, potato starch, paprika, white pepper, ground ginger, nutmeg, mace, cardamom), coconut extract, babycorn, red pepper, onion, rapeseed oil, sugar, green beans, garlic purée, lemongrass purée, green chilli purée, galangal, lemon juice, sunflower oil, coriander leaf purée, ginger purée, salt, shallot, coriander leaf, lime leaf, cornflour, tamarind paste, makrut lime peel, basil, turmeric, coriander, cumin

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.

  • 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.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
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.
  • 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.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 192 rice dishes

From least to most processed, this one ranks 128th. 71% of the rice dishes 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 192 rice dishes, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000169613771, 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.