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Is Lean Cuisine Tortilla Crusted Fish with rice, poblano peppers & corn in sour cream sauce ultra-processed?

8 oz Frozen seafood Sold in the United States

Pack of Lean Cuisine Tortilla Crusted Fish with rice, poblano peppers & corn in sour cream 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:

  • 108 ingredients
  • 6 additives
  • Nutri-Score B

Less processed frozen seafood

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

Tortilla crusted alaska pollock (alaska pollock, wheat flour (flour, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), modified corn starch, water, vegetable oil (canola, cottonseed, soybean, sunflower), tortilla (yellow corn, vegetable oil (corn, soybean, sunflower oil)), enriched wheat flour (flour, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), and less of spices 2%, carrot powder, potassium chloride, citric acid, salt, garlic, whey, torula yeast, yellow corn flour, natural flavors, sugar, soy flour, white corn flour, yeast, tomato, chili (chili pepper, cumin, oregano, salt, garlic), dextrose, onion, corn starch, leavening (sodium bicarbonate), sodium aluminum phosphate, egg whites, maltodextrin, annatto (color)), long grain rice (water, rice, iron, niacin, thiamin mononitrate, folic acid), skim milk, corn, red peppers, water, green tomatoes, poblano chiles, onions, cheddar cheese (part-skim milk, salt, enzymes, annatto, vitamin a palmitate), and less of buttermilk powder 2%, sour cream (sour cream (cultured cream, skim milk)), soybean oil, cornstarch, salt, garlic, spices, jalapeno (jalapeno peppers, salt, acetic acid, water, calcium chloride), lime juice concentrate, whey, maltodextrin, flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), sugar, potassium chloride

Additives: E160b Annatto , E260 Acetic acid , E330 Citric acid , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate , E541 Sodium aluminium phosphate

As written on the pack

Tortilla crusted alaska pollock (alaska pollock, enriched bleached wheat flour [flour, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid], modified corn starch, water, vegetable oil [canola, cottonseed, soybean and/or sunflower], tortilla chips [yellow whole corn, vegetable oil {corn, soybean and/or sunflower oil}], enriched wheat flour [flour, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid], 2% or less of spices, carrot powder, potassium chloride, citric acid, salt, garlic powder, whey, torula yeast, yellow corn flour, natural flavors, sugar, soy flour, white corn flour, yeast, tomato powder, chili powder [chili pepper, cumin, oregano, salt, dehydrated garlic], dextrose, onion powder, corn starch, leavening [sodium bicarbonate, sodium aluminum phosphate], egg whites, maltodextrin, annatto extract [color]), cooked enriched long grain rice (water, rice, iron, niacin, thiamin mononitrate, folic acid), skim milk, corn, red peppers, water, green ground tomatoes, poblano chiles, onions, reduced fat cheddar cheese (cultured part-skim milk, salt, enzymes, annatto, vitamin a palmitate), 2% or less of buttermilk powder, dehydrated sour cream (sour cream [cultured cream, skim milk]), soybean oil, cornstarch, salt, garlic, spices, jalapeno puree (jalapeno peppers, salt, acetic acid, water, calcium chloride), lime juice concentrate, cultured whey, maltodextrin, enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), sugar, potassium chloride.

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.

  • E160b Annatto 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
6 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.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.
  • Bread An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 90 frozen seafood

From least to most processed, this one ranks 87th. 79% of the frozen seafood 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 90 frozen seafood, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0013800447302, last edited 14 June 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.