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Is Leon 6 Chunky Fish Fingers ultra-processed?

6 fish fingers 390g Fish fingers Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Leon 6 Chunky Fish Fingers

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:

  • 18 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score A

Less processed fish fingers

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

Alaska Pollock, Water, Rice Flour, Rapeseed Oil, Maize Starch, Gram Flour, Maize Flour, Salt, Potato Starch, Dextrose, Natural Flavouring, Pepper, Raising Agent (Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate), Sage, warning (Whilst every care is taken to remove bones from this product), small bones may remain

Additives: E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

Alaska Pollock (FISH) (60%), Water, Rice Flour, Rapeseed Oil, Maize Starch, Gram Flour, Maize Flour, Salt, Potato Starch, Dextrose, Natural Flavouring, Pepper, Raising Agent (Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate), Sage. WARNING: Whilst every care is taken to remove bones from this product, small bones may remain.

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.

  • 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.
2 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 63 fish fingers

From least to most processed, this one ranks 47th. 63% of the fish fingers 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 63 fish fingers, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5060699971260, last edited 10 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 A (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.