Food Category Details

Pre-cooked pastas and noodles and like products (06.4.3)

Description:
Products that are treated (i.e., heated, boiled, steamed, cooked, pre-gelatinized or frozen). These products may be sold directly to the consumer (e.g., pre-cooked, chilled gnocchi to be heated prior to consumption), or may be the starch component of prepared meals (e.g., heat-and-serve frozen dinner entrees containing spaghetti, macaroni or noodles; canned spaghetti and meatballs entrée). Also includes instant noodles (sokuseki-men; e.g., pre-cooked ramen, udon, rice noodles), that are pre-gelatinized , heated and dried prior to sale to the consumer.

This page provides information on the food additive provisions that are acceptable for use in foods conforming to the food category.

Items in uppercase (e.g. PHOSPHATES) refer to food additive groups.