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Is Atria Mör & Snabb Nötkött Kebab ultra-processed?

200 g Meals with meat Sold in Aland Islands and Finland

Pack of Atria Mör & Snabb Nötkött Kebab

Yes, it's ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

  • 18 ingredients
  • 3 additives

Less processed meals with meat

Less processed isn't automatically healthier, so compare the labels for what matters to you, such as sugar or salt.

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Nötkött 94%, vatten, potatisstärkelse, kryddor (bland annat paprika, vitlök, cayennepeppar, spiskummin), potatisfiber, dextros, aromer, stabiliseringsmedel (e450), joderat salt, antioxidationsmedel (e301), konserveringsmedel (natriumnitrit)

Additives: E250 Sodium nitrite , E301 Sodium ascorbate , E450 Diphosphates

As written on the pack

Nötkött 94%, vatten, potatisstärkelse, kryddor (bl.a paprika, vitlök, cayennepeppar, spiskummin), potatisfiber, dextros, aromer, stabiliseringsmedel (E 450), joderat salt, antioxidationsmedel (E 301), konserveringsmedel natriumnitrit.

What makes it ultra-processed

Cosmetic additives

Added to change how the food looks, feels or tastes, not to keep it safe. A hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • E450 Diphosphates Diphosphates are phosphate salts used as raising agents in baking powder, and to hold water in processed meats and cheese.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.

Substances rarely used in home kitchens

Refined or extracted in factories, such as syrups made from starch or isolated proteins. The other hallmark of ultra-processed food.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
5 ingredients that would only make it processed

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

  • E250 Sodium nitrite Preservatives are substances which prolong the shelf-life of foods by protecting them against deterioration caused by micro-organisms and/or which protect against growth of pathogenic micro-organisms.
  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 482 meals with meat

From least to most processed, this one ranks 385th. 77% of the meals with meat here are ultra-processed.

Ranked by NOVA group, then by the number of ultra-processing signs, additives and ingredients. Our ordering, not part of NOVA.

All 482 meals with meat, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 6407800001376, last edited 6 April 2022), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
  • Photo: Open Food Facts contributors, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • The NOVA group is an automated estimate from crowdsourced data: a missing or mistyped ingredient can change it.
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.