Spot the ultra-processed
Ten rounds and a bonus. Tap the food that's ultra-processed, or pick both or neither. Then see what decided it, and how the two compare on nutrition.
Which one is ultra-processed?
What your score means
Each miss is a food to check in your own kitchen. Note the rounds you got wrong, find those packages at home, and paste their lists into the label checker. Bread, flavored yogurt, oat milk and protein powder each have their own answer on the questions page.
How the rounds are decided
Each answer follows NOVA's test: one ingredient a kitchen doesn't keep makes a food group 4. The deciding ingredient shown is the one most US labels of that food list, so a package in your cupboard can differ. The label checker settles it for the one in your hand.
Look at the nutrition too. Plenty of group 4 foods win on protein or fiber, and the group is a fact about making, not a verdict.
2 sources
- Monteiro CA, Cannon G, Levy RB, et al. Ultra-processed foods: what they are and how to identify them. Public Health Nutrition, 2019pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Gebhardt SE, Thomas RG. Nutritive Value of Foods. USDA ARS, Home and Garden Bulletin 72, 2002ars.usda.gov
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