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Is Kings Wagyu - Marinated air dried strips ultra-processed?

45g Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Kings Wagyu - Marinated air dried strips

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:

  • 17 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score E

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

beef, sugar, cider vinegar, salt, onion extract, paprika, red bell pepper, dried onion, yeast extract, thyme, flavouring, potato fibre, preservative (potassium sorbate), chilli, smoke flavouring, vegetable oil

Additives: E202 Potassium sorbate

As written on the pack

BEEF (156g PER 100g OF FINISHED PRODUCT), SUGAR, CIDER VINEGAR, SALT, ONION EXTRACT, PAPRIKA, DRIED RED BELL PEPPER, DRIED ONION, YEAST EXTRACT, THYME, FLAVOURING, POTATO FIBRE, PRESERVATIVE: POTASSIUM SORBATE, DRIED CHILLI, SMOKE FLAVOURING, VEGETABLE OIL

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.

  • 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.

  • Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
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.

  • 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.
  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • 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

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5060079652666, last edited 29 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.