Is Braemoor Breakfast Pork Patties ultra-processed?

342 g Meat patties Sold in the United Kingdom

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Dextrose
Glucose

13 ingredients
No additives
Nutri-Score D

Less processed meat patties

Beef Quarter Pounders Tesco 7 ingredients · no additives NOVA group 3
2 British Aberdeen Angus Beef Steak Burgers Asda 9 ingredients · 1 additive NOVA group 3
Quarter Louder Beef Steak Burgers Saintsbury's : Taste the Difference 11 ingredients · 2 additives NOVA group 3
2 steak burgers Sainsbury's 9 ingredients · 2 additives NOVA group 3

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

Pork 96%, Crumbs (Rice Flour, Gram Flour, Maize Starch (processing marker), Salt (processing marker), Dextrose (ultra-processing marker)), Salt (processing marker), Herbs, Yeast Extract, Sugar (processing marker), Spices, Water

As written on the pack

96% Pork, Gluten Free Crumbs (Rice Flour, Gram Flour, Maize Starch, Salt, Dextrose), Salt, Dried Herbs, Yeast Extract, Sugar, Spices, Water.

What makes it ultra-processed

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.

3 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.
Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 20 meat patties

From least to most processed, this one ranks 13th. 50% of the meat patties 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 20 meat patties, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4335619071810, 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.