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Is Gastro Salmon En Croute with a creamy dill sauce ultra-processed?

320 g Friands Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Gastro Salmon En Croute with a creamy dill sauce

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:

  • 37 ingredients
  • 5 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed friands

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

Pink Salmon 26.8%, Wheat Flour, Margarine (Palm Fat, Water, Rapeseed Oil, Salt, Emulsifier (mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids), Acidity Regulator (Citric Acid), Colour (Carotenes), Flavouring), Water, Low Fat Quark Soft Cheese 6%, Cream 3.2%, Dill 0.6%, Modified Maize Starch, Salt, Whey Powder, Whole Milk Powder, Cream Powder, Sugar, Rapeseed Oil, Mustard (Water, Mustard Seeds, Spirit Vinegar, Salt), Dried Onion, Dried Garlic, Natural Lemon Flavouring with Other Natural Flavourings, Thickener (Xanthan Gum), Flour Treatment Agent (L-Cysteine)

Additives: E160a Carotene , E330 Citric acid , E415 Xanthan gum , E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids , E920 L-cysteine

As written on the pack

26.8% Pink Salmon (Fish), Wheat Flour, Margarine (Palm Fat, Water, Rapeseed Oil, Salt, Emulsifier: Mono - and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids; Acidity Regulator: Citric Acid; Colour: Carotenes; Flavouring), Water, 6% Low Fat Quark Soft Cheese (Milk), 3.2% Cream (Milk), 0.6% Dill, Modified Maize Starch, Salt, Whey Powder (Milk), Whole Milk Powder, Cream Powder (Milk), Sugar, Rapeseed Oil, Mustard (Water, Mustard Seeds, Spirit Vinegar, Salt), Dried Onion, Dried Garlic, Natural Lemon Flavouring with Other Natural Flavourings (contain Milk), Thickener: Xanthan Gum; Flour Treatment Agent: L-Cysteine.

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.

  • E160a Carotene Carotenes are orange-yellow pigments, either synthesised or extracted from carrots, algae or palm oil.
  • E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
  • E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids are made from fats and glycerol.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
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  • Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.
  • 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.

  • Whey Whey is the liquid left over from cheese making, usually dried into a powder and used as a cheap source of milk solids, protein and lactose.
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.
  • Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 13 friands

From least to most processed, this one ranks 12th. 31% of the friands 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 13 friands, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4335619032118, 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.