Rice, dry noodles and rice paper

Yenzo has checked 8 products in this group, from EZ Life, Jimmy food, Lotus Grand and 4 other brands; on a Vietnamese pack the group is called “bún, phở khô, gạo, bánh tráng”. The ingredient list and the nutrition table of each product come from its own label — 2 from label photos checked by Yenzo and 6 from the open database Open Food Facts — and every product is rated with the same open formula the Yenzo app uses. Product names are given as printed on the pack, in Vietnamese, with a short English description in brackets.

On the Yenzo scale, 6 are rated “Moderate”, 1 “Good” and 1 “Excellent”. Across these 8 products, the thing that most often pulls the rating down is energy density (5 of 8 products), followed by salt (3) and fat (1). The ratings compare rice, dry noodles and rice paper with each other by the same rules — which rank higher within the group — not whether to eat them. Each product's page lists the reasons behind its level, figure by figure, with the threshold each figure is measured against.