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Is M&S Food Apple Celery And Walnut Salad With A Creamy Mayonnaise Dressing ultra-processed?

200 g Prepared salads Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of M&S Food Apple Celery And Walnut Salad With A Creamy Mayonnaise Dressing

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

  • 24 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Cabbage 28%, Granny Smith Apples 20%, Celery 15%, Rapeseed Oil, Raisins 7%, Walnuts 6%, Water, Soured Cream, Lemon Juice, Fromage Frais, White Wine Vinegar, Pasteurised Egg Yolk, Cornflour, Egg, Parsley, Sugar, Salt, Vinegar, Mustard, Spices (Black Pepper, Allspice, Turmeric), Mustard

As written on the pack

Cabbage (28%), Granny Smith Apples (20%), Celery (15% ), Rapeseed Oil. Raisins (7%),Walnuts (6%), Water, Soured Cream (Milk), Lemon Juice, Fromage Frais (Milk), White Wine Vinegar, Pasteurised Egg Yolk,Cornflour ,Pasteurised Egg, Parsley, Sugar, Salt, Vinegar, Dried Mustard, Ground Spices (Black Pepper, Allspice, Turmeric), Mustard Bran.

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 224 prepared salads

From least to most processed, this one ranks 41st. 60% of the prepared salads 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 224 prepared salads, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00869041, last edited 15 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.