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Is Waitrose Vegetable spring rolls ultra-processed?

216g Spring rolls Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Waitrose Vegetable spring rolls

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:

  • 45 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed spring rolls

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 39% (bean sprouts, carrot, black fungus mushrooms, water chestnut, spring onion), fortified wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), water, rapeseed oil, rice noodles (rice flour, water), ginger, garlic purée, sugar, salt, coriander, red chilli, soya bean, fennel, rice vinegar, white pepper, cassia, star anise, wheat, wheat flour, onion, cornflour, liquorice powder, cloves, mushroom extract, ground ginger, potato starch, yeast extract, carrot powder, parsley, celery, onion extract, parsley, turmeric extract

Additives: E100 Curcumin

As written on the pack

Vegetables (39%) (bean sprouts, carrot, black fungus mushrooms, water chestnut, spring onion), fortified wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), water, rapeseed oil, rice noodles (rice flour, water), ginger purée, garlic purée, sugar, salt, chopped coriander, red chilli, fermented soya bean, ground fennel, rice vinegar, white pepper, ground cassia, ground star anise, wheat, wheat flour, onion powder, cornflour, liquorice powder, ground cloves, mushroom extract, ground ginger, potato starch, yeast extract, carrot powder, dried parsley, celery extract, onion extract, parsley extract, turmeric extract

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.

  • E100 Curcumin 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.
4 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 18 spring rolls

From least to most processed, this one ranks 9th. 61% of the spring rolls 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 18 spring rolls, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000169330371, 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.