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Is Healthy Choice Barbecue Seasoned Steak with Potatoes ultra-processed?

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Pack of Healthy Choice Barbecue Seasoned Steak with Potatoes

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:

  • 65 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score B

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Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

russet potatoes, seasoned cooked beef steak and binder product (beef, water, caramel color, dextrose, seasoning (natural flavor, salt, maltodextrin, whey, cauliflower, sesame oil), modified corn starch, potassium chloride, potassium phosphate, salt, sodium phosphates, spice), water, corn, green and red bell peppers, onions, molasses, tomato paste, barbeque seasoning (brown sugar, sugar, molasses, worcestershire sauce (corn syrup, salt, caramel color, garlic, sugar, spices, soy sauce (wheat, soybean, salt, maltodextrin, caramel color), palm oil, tamarind, natural flavor), maltodextrin, sodium diacetate, spices including paprika, turmeric, natural smoke flavor (maltodextrin), citric acid, lactose, dehydrated onion, garlic), sugar, whiskey (whiskey, salt), modified corn starch, red wine vinegar, salt, natural mesquite smoke flavor, potassium chloride, garlic

Additives: E150c Ammonia caramel , E262 Sodium acetates , E262ii Sodium diacetate , E330 Citric acid

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E150c Ammonia caramel.

As written on the pack

russet potatoes, seasoned cooked beef steak and binder product (beef, water, caramel color, dextrose, seasoning [natural flavor, salt, maltodextrin, dried whey, dried cauliflower, sesame oil], modified corn starch, potassium chloride, potassium phosphate, salt, sodium phosphates, spice extractives), water, corn, green and red bell peppers, onions, molasses, tomato paste, barbeque seasoning (brown sugar, sugar, molasses, worcestershire sauce powder [corn syrup, salt, caramel color, garlic, sugar, spices, soy sauce solids (fermented wheat and soybean, salt, maltodextrin, caramel color), palm oil, tamarind, natural flavor], maltodextrin, sodium diacetate, spices including paprika and turmeric, natural smoke flavor [maltodextrin], citric acid, lactose, dehydrated onion and garlic), sugar, salted whiskey (whiskey, salt), modified corn starch, red wine vinegar, salt, natural mesquite smoke flavor, potassium chloride, garlic 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.

  • E150c Ammonia caramel Ammonia caramel is a brown colour made by heating sugars with ammonia compounds.
  • 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.

  • 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.
  • Lactose Lactose is milk sugar, crystallised industrially from whey, a by-product of cheese making.
  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
  • 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.

  • 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 1,389 vegetables based foods

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1382nd. 25% of the vegetables based foods 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 1,389 vegetables based foods, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0072655405097, 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 B (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.