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Is World Wide Foods Winter Grains ultra-processed?

250g Seeds Sold in the United Kingdom and Ireland

Pack of World Wide Foods Winter Grains

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:

  • 38 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score B

Less processed seeds

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

Pearl Barley (Water, Pearl Barley), Red Rice (Water, Red Rice), Black Lentils (Water, Black Lentils), chestnuts (996, Water, Chestnuts), Red Quinoa (Water, Red Quinoa), cranberries 4% (Sugar, Cranberries), Rapeseed Oil, Nutmeg, Cinnamon Powder, Salt, Stabiliser (Guar Gum), Yeast Extract, Sage, Dextrose, Potato Starch, Onion Extract, Carrot Powder, Parsley, Marjoram, Thyme, Sage, Pepper Extract, Colour (Curcumin)

Additives: E100 Curcumin , E412 Guar gum

As written on the pack

Cooked Pearl Barley (Water, Pearl Barley), Cooked Red Rice (Water, Red Rice), Cooked Black Lentils (Water, Black Lentils), COOKED CHESTNUTS (996) (Water, Dried Chestnuts), Cooked Red Quinoa (Water, Red Quinoa), SWEETENED DRIED CRANBERRIES (4%) (Sugar, Cranberries), Rapeseed Oil, Ground Nutmeg, Cinnamon Powder, Salt, Stabiliser: Guar Gum; Yeast Extract, Dried Sage, Dextrose, Potato Starch, Onion Extract, Carrot Powder, Parsley, Marjoram Extract, Thyme Extract, Sage Extract, Pepper Extract, Colour: Curcumin.

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.
  • 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.

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.
3 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.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 1,083 seeds

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1058th. 27% of the seeds 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 1,083 seeds, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4088600541884, 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 B (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.