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Is Wicked Kitchen Meat-Free Hoisin & Rice ultra-processed?

Plant-based meals Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Wicked Kitchen Meat-Free Hoisin & Rice

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:

  • 64 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • 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

Rice (Water, Long Grain Rice, Red Pepper, Carrot, Peas, Rapeseed Oil, Ginger, Garlic Purée, Sugar, Malt Vinegar (Barley), Sea Salt, Molasses, Soya Bean, Wheat, Cornflour, Yeast Extract Powder, Wheat Flour, Invert Sugar Syrup, Onion, Salt, Flavourings, Chilli, Paprika, Clove, Garlic), Water, Cabbage 6%, Mangetout, Sugar, Wheat 1.5%, Pea Protein 1.5% (Textured Wheat Protein, Pea Protein), Wheat Gluten, Potato Protein, Soya Bean, Glucose Syrup, Pea Protein, Sunflower Oil, Coriander, Pea Starch, Salt, Flavourings, Cornflour, Dextrose, Malted Barley Extract, Preservative (Acetic Acid), Caramelised Sugar Syrup, Star Anise, Cinnamon Powder, Fennel, Black Pepper, Clove, Wheat Flour, Ginger Powder, Aniseed, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin, including cereals containing gluten

Additives: E260 Acetic acid

As written on the pack

Cooked Fried Rice [Water, Long Grain Rice, Red Pepper, Carrot, Peas, Rapeseed Oil, Ginger Purée, Garlic Purée, Sugar, Malt Vinegar (Barley), Sea Salt, Molasses, Soya Bean, Wheat, Cornflour, Yeast Extract Powder, Wheat Flour, Invert Sugar Syrup, Onion, Salt, Flavourings, Chilli Powder, Paprika, Clove Powder, Garlic Powder], Water, Cabbage (6%), Mangetout, Sugar, Textured Wheat and Pea Protein (1.5%) [Textured Wheat Protein, Pea Protein], Wheat Gluten, Potato Protein, Soya Bean, Glucose Syrup, Pea Protein, Sunflower Oil, Coriander, Pea Starch, Salt, Flavourings, Cornflour, Dextrose, Malted Barley Extract, Preservative (Acetic Acid), Caramelised Sugar Syrup, Ground Star Anise, Cinnamon Powder, Fennel Powder, Ground Black Pepper, Clove Powder, Wheat Flour, Ginger Powder, Ground Aniseed. Wheat Flour contains: Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin. Allergy Advice For allergens, including cereals containing gluten, see ingredients in bold.

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.
  • Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Gluten Wheat gluten, sold as "vital wheat gluten", is the protein washed out of wheat flour.
  • Invert sugar Invert sugar is ordinary sugar split into glucose and fructose with acid or enzymes.
  • Wheat An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.
6 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.
  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
  • 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 65 plant-based meals

From least to most processed, this one ranks 64th. 49% of the plant-based 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 65 plant-based meals, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5056684900131, 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.