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Is Findus Dagens Fish & Chips ultra-processed?

340 g Frozen ready-made meals Sold in Sweden and Finland

Pack of Findus Dagens Fish & Chips

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:

  • 46 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed frozen ready-made meals

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

pommes stripes 43% (potatoes), sunflower oil, grape sugar, breaded fish 24% (joined pieces of alaska pollock 15% (theragra chalcogramma)), rapeseed oil, starch (corn, potatoes), water, rice flour 2%, chickpea flour 0.8%, cornflour, salt, grape sugar, pepper, white pepper, onion, stabilizer (e415), pepper extract, aioli sauce 19% (crème fraiche), rapeseed oil, cornstarch, mustard (water, mustard seed, sugar, vinegar, salt, cayenne pepper), egg yolk, garlic, lemon juice, salt, sugar, thickener (fruit kernel flour, guar gum), black pepper, turmeric, vegetables 14% (pea)

Additives: E412 Guar gum , E415 Xanthan gum

As written on the pack

pommes stripes 43%: potatoes, sunflower oil, grape sugar, breaded fish 24%: joined pieces of alaska pollock 15% (theragra chalcogramma), rapeseed oil, starch (corn, potatoes), water, rice flour (2%), chickpea flour (0.8%), cornflour, salt, grape sugar, pepper powder, white pepper, onion powder, stabilizer (e415), pepper extract, aioli sauce 19%: crème fraiche, rapeseed oil, cornstarch, mustard (water, mustard seed, sugar, vinegar, salt, cayenne pepper), egg yolk, garlic, lemon juice, salt, sugar, thickener (fruit kernel flour, guar gum), black pepper, turmeric, vegetables 14 %: pea ,

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.

  • E412 Guar gum Guar gum is a thickener ground from the seeds of the guar plant.
  • E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
  • Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.

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.

  • 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.

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
  • 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 84 frozen ready-made meals

From least to most processed, this one ranks 64th. 69% of the frozen ready-made meals 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 84 frozen ready-made meals, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 7310500175256, last edited 2 April 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.