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Is Inspired Cuisine BBQ Pulled Pork and Rice ultra-processed?

Microwave meals Sold in the United Kingdom

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:

  • 62 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score B

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Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Long Grain Rice (Water, Long Grain Rice), pork 21%, Pork, Brown Sugar (White Sugar, Cane Molasses), Mesquite Seasoning (Sugar, Salt, Dried Glucose Syrup, Tomato, Yeast Extract, Cumin, Turmeric, Garlic Powder, Onion Powder, Barley Malt, Smoke Flavouring), Cornflour, Water, spring greens 8%, Onion, Brown Sugar (White Sugar, Cane Molasses), Tomato Purée, Red Peppers, Sweetcorn, Black Quinoa (Black Quinoa, Water), Barley Malt Vinegar, Mesquite Seasoning (Sugar, Salt, Dried Glucose Syrup, Tomato, Yeast Extract, Cumin, Turmeric, Garlic Powder, Onion Powder, Barley Malt, Smoke Flavouring), Cornflour, Garlic Purée, Rapeseed Oil, Coriander Leaf, Smoked Paprika, Dijon Mustard (Water, Mustard Seeds, Spirit Vinegar, Salt), Colour (Plain Caramel), Salt, Smoke Flavouring, Black Pepper, Chipotle Chilli

Additives: E150a Plain caramel

As written on the pack

Cooked Long Grain Rice (Water, Long Grain Rice), MARINATED COOKED PORK (21%) [Pork, Brown Sugar (White Sugar, Cane Molasses), Mesquite Seasoning (Sugar, Salt, Dried Glucose Syrup, Tomato Powder, Yeast Extract, Ground Cumin, Ground Turmeric, Garlic Powder, Onion Powder, Roasted Barley Malt Extract, Smoke Flavouring), Cornflour), Water, SPRING GREENS (8%), Onion, Brown Sugar (White Sugar, Cane Molasses), Tomato Purée, Red Peppers, Sweetcorn, Cooked Black Quinoa (Black Quinoa, Water), Barley Malt Vinegar, Mesquite Seasoning (Sugar, Salt, Dried Glucose Syrup, Tomato Powder, Yeast Extract, Ground Cumin, Ground Turmeric, Garlic Powder, Onion Powder, Roasted Barley Malt Extract, Smoke Flavouring), Cornflour, Garlic Purée, Rapeseed Oil, Coriander Leaf, Ground Smoked Paprika, Dijon Mustard (Water, Mustard Seeds, Spirit Vinegar, Salt), Colour: Plain Caramel; Salt, Smoke Flavouring, Ground Black Pepper, Chipotle Chilli Flakes.

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.

  • E150a Plain caramel Plain caramel is a brown colour made by heating sugars.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • 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.

  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
3 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.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 350 microwave meals

From least to most processed, this one ranks 284th. 72% of the microwave 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 350 microwave meals, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4061463069115, last edited 12 July 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
  • 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.