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Is Birds Eye Fishless Battered Fillets ultra-processed?

Meat analogues Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Birds Eye Fishless Battered Fillets

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:

  • 22 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

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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

Rice Flake 37%, Flour (wheat, Rice, Maize), Water, Rapeseed Oil, WHEAT Gluten, Starch (Potato, wheat), Pea Fibre, Salt, Natural Flavouring, Raising Agents (Disodium Diphosphates, Sodium Carbonates), Dextrose, WHEAT Fibre, For allergens see ingredients in CAPITAL LETTERS TO PREPAR 000 22 FA GA, Please ensu, These instru

Additives: E450 Diphosphates , E450i Disodium diphosphate , E500 Sodium carbonates

As written on the pack

Textured Rice Flake (37%), Flour (WHEAT, Rice, Maize), Water, Rapeseed Oil, WHEAT Gluten, Starch (Potato, WHEAT), Pea Fibre, Salt, Natural Flavouring, Raising Agents (Disodium Diphosphates, Sodium Carbonates), Dextrose, WHEAT Fibre. For allergens see ingredients in CAPITAL LETTERS TO PREPAR 000 22 FA GA • Please ensu • These instru

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.
  • Gluten Wheat gluten, sold as "vital wheat gluten", is the protein washed out of wheat flour.
  • Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
  • Rice flakes An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.
2 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.

  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 511 meat analogues

From least to most processed, this one ranks 411th. 80% of the meat analogues 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 511 meat analogues, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000116127160, last edited 27 March 2026), 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.
  • NOVA measures processing, not nutrition. For nutrition, Open Food Facts gives this product a Nutri-Score of D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.