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Is Fish super selection ultra-processed?

Sushis Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Fish super selection

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:

  • 90 ingredients
  • 10 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed sushis

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

Cooked rice (water, rice, sugar, spirit vinegar, rice vinegar, salt, rapeseed oil, fructose-glucose syrup, cane molasses), smoked salmon 8% (salmon, sea salt, demerara sugar), mayonnaise (rapeseed oil, water, free range egg, egg yolk, sugar, spirit vinegar, salt, lemon juice from concentrate, potassium sorbate, calcium disodium EDTA, paprika extract), soy sauce (water, soya beans, wheat, salt, alcohol), cucumber, king prawns 3% (king prawns, salt), salmon, avocado, sugar, ginger (ginger, tapioca starch, water, sugar cane vinegar, salt, alcohol), water, white sesame seeds, lettuce, wasabi (horseradish, wasabi, tapioca starch, salt, mustard oil, citric acid, ascorbic acid), red chilli, Alaska pollock, hake, seaweed, black sesame, chilli, salt, free range egg white, wheat starch, chilli purée, spirit vinegar, red pepper, toasted sesame seed oil, modified maize starch, rapeseed oil, pea starch, soya beans, sorbitol, diphosphates, triphosphates, polyphosphates, wheat, soya protein, modified potato starch, natural flavouring, lime juice, onion, apple juice, garlic purée, garlic powder, lime juice concentrate, lycopene, alcohol

Additives: E160c Paprika extract , E160d Lycopene , E202 Potassium sorbate , E300 Ascorbic acid , E330 Citric acid , E385 Calcium disodium ethylenediaminetetraacetate , E420 Sorbitol , E450 Diphosphates , E451 Triphosphates , E452 Polyphosphates

As written on the pack

Cooked rice (water, rice, sugar, spirit vinegar, rice vinegar, salt, rapeseed oil, fructose-glucose syrup, cane molasses), smoked salmon (8%) (salmon (fish), sea salt, demerara sugar), mayonnaise (rapeseed oil, water, pasteurised free range egg and egg yolk, sugar, spirit vinegar, salt, lemon juice from concentrate, preservative (potassium sorbate), antioxidant (calcium disodium EDTA), colour (paprika extract)), soy sauce (water, soya beans, wheat, salt, alcohol), cucumber, king prawns (3%) (king prawns (crustacean), salt), salmon (fish), avocado, sugar, pickled ginger (ginger, tapioca starch, water, sugar cane vinegar, salt, alcohol), water, white sesame seeds, lettuce, wasabi (horseradish, wasabi, tapioca starch, salt, mustard oil, acidity regulator (citric acid), antioxidant (ascorbic acid)), red chilli, Alaska pollock (fish) and/or hake (fish), seaweed, black sesame seeds, chilli powder, salt, reconstituted pasteurised free range egg white, wheat starch, chilli purée, spirit vinegar, red pepper powder, toasted sesame seed oil, modified maize starch, rapeseed oil, pea starch, soya beans, stabilisers (sorbitol, diphosphates, triphosphates, polyphosphates), wheat, soya protein, modified potato starch, natural flavouring (contains crustacean), lime juice, onion purée, apple juice concentrate, garlic purée, garlic powder, lime juice concentrate, colour (lycopene), alcohol.

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.

  • E160c Paprika extract Paprika extract is a red-orange colour extracted from paprika peppers.
  • E160d Lycopene Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
  • E420 Sorbitol Sorbitol is a sugar alcohol used as a sweetener and to keep products moist.
  • E450 Diphosphates Diphosphates are phosphate salts used as raising agents in baking powder, and to hold water in processed meats and cheese.
  • E451 Triphosphates Emulsifiers are substances which make it possible to form or maintain a homogenous mixture of two or more immiscible phases such as oil and water in a foodstuff.
  • E452 Polyphosphates Emulsifiers are substances which make it possible to form or maintain a homogenous mixture of two or more immiscible phases such as oil and water in a foodstuff.
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  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.

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.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
7 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.
  • 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.
  • Sauce A prepared sauce used as an ingredient.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 24 sushis

From least to most processed, this one ranks 23rd. 88% of the sushis 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 24 sushis, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5035272145130, last edited 9 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.