Prepared & other foods
Not everything fits neatly into a single ingredient. This category gathers the composite foods — soups, sauces, gravies, ready meals, fast food and mixed dishes — where several ingredients combine and the nutrition reflects the recipe as a whole rather than one raw component. Because of that, the numbers here are the hardest to generalise: two dishes with the same name can differ widely depending on how they're made.
The common threads in many prepared and fast foods are higher sodium, added fats and refined carbohydrates, since these improve flavour and shelf life. That's not a blanket verdict — a vegetable soup and a fried fast-food item live in the same category but are worlds apart nutritionally. The per-100 g figures let you compare like with like and spot where the salt and calories concentrate.
Explore every prepared and mixed food per 100 g, and tap through for the full breakdown of each.