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Is Cauldron Pumpkin And Caramelised Onion Veggie Bakes ultra-processed?

200 g Meat analogues Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Cauldron Pumpkin And Caramelised Onion Veggie Bakes

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:

  • 38 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed meat analogues

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

Pumpkin 28%, Carrot, Restructured Soy Flour, Sunflower Oil, Onion 8% (Onion, Rapeseed Oil, Sugar), Breadcrumb (Wheat Flour, Yeast, Salt), Wheat Gluten, Tapioca, Pea Starch, Potato Flake, Soy Protein Isolate, Onion, Pea Fibre, Parsley, Potassium Chloride, Vegetable Bouillon (Salt, Cornflour, Yeast Extract, Dried Vegetables (Onion, Celery, Carrot, Parsley), Olive Oil, Turmeric), Salt, Dried Garlic, Potassium Sorbate, Spirit Vinegar, Natural Flavourings, Rosemary

Additives: E202 Potassium sorbate

As written on the pack

Pumpkin (28%), Carrot, Restructured Soy Flour, Sunflower Oil, Caramelised Onion (8%) (Onion, Rapeseed Oil, Sugar), Breadcrumb (Wheat Flour, Yeast, Salt), Wheat Gluten, Tapioca and Pea Starch, Potato Flake, Soy Protein Isolate, Onion, Pea Fibre, Parsley, Potassium Chloride, Vegetable Bouillon [Salt, Cornflour, Yeast Extract, Dried Vegetables (Onion, Celery, Carrot, Parsley), Olive Oil, Turmeric], Salt, Dried Garlic, Preservative: Potassium Sorbate; Spirit Vinegar, Natural Flavourings, Rosemary Powder.

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.

  • 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.

  • 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.
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.

  • E202 Potassium sorbate 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.
  • 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.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 512 meat analogues

From least to most processed, this one ranks 237th. 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 512 meat analogues, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5013683307422, last edited 19 August 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.