Seasoned Vegetable Base

How it scored 48 / 100

Nutrition snapshot

Ingredients 16 listed

• 1 Mirepoix
  Classic culinary base mixture of diced onion, carrot, and celery (sometimes with herbs).
  Safe
• 2 Hydrolysed Soy Protein
  Soy protein broken down by acid or enzymatic hydrolysis into peptides and free amino acids; high in glutamic acid.
  Moderate
• 3 Salt
  Sodium chloride (NaCl), a crystalline mineral compound composed of roughly 40% sodium and 60% chloride by mass.
  Low
• 4 Yeast Extract
  Concentrate of soluble compounds from autolyzed Saccharomyces yeast cells; contains naturally occurring glutamates and nucleotides.
  Low
• 5 Tomato Sauce
  A sauce made from cooked, strained tomatoes, often with seasonings and other ingredients.
  Safe
• 6 Sugar
  Sucrose, a disaccharide of glucose and fructose, refined from sugarcane or sugar beets.
  Moderate
• 7 Maltodextrin
  A short-chain glucose polymer (3–20 glucose units, DE 3–20) produced by partial enzymatic or acid hydrolysis of corn, potato, rice, or wheat…
  Moderate
• 8 Soya Oil
  Vegetable oil extracted from soybeans (Glycine max), typically refined, bleached, and deodorized. High in polyunsaturated fats, particularly…
  Low
• 9 Onion
  The edible bulb of Allium cepa L., a widely cultivated vegetable in the Allium family that also includes garlic, shallots, and leeks.
  Safe
• 10 Potato
  Edible tuber of the Solanum tuberosum plant.
  Safe
• 11 Natural Flavouring
  A regulatory umbrella term (21 CFR 101.22) for flavor extracts derived from spices, fruit, vegetable, herb, bark, root, leaf, meat, seafood,…
  Low
• 12 Garlic
  Allium sativum, a bulbous plant whose cloves are rich in organosulfur compounds — most notably allicin (formed when garlic is crushed) — plu…
  Safe
• 13 Carrot
  Edible taproot of the Daucus carota plant.
  Safe
• 14 Celery
  Celery (Apium graveolens) is a marshland plant used as a vegetable.
  Low
• 15 Water
  Water intended for human consumption; the most common ingredient in processed foods and beverages. Bottled water is regulated as a food unde…
  Safe
• 16 Tomato Concentrate
  Concentrated tomato product made by removing water from tomato juice/pulp; includes paste and puree.
  Safe