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Is M&S Food Prawn Layered Salad ultra-processed?

Prepared salads Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of M&S Food Prawn Layered Salad

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:

  • 34 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score B

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Cooked Pasta 21% (Water, Durum Wheat Semolina), Cooked Prawns, Cucumber 13%, Carrots 11%, Iceberg Lettuce, Water, Sweetcorn 8%, Rapeseed Oil, Cornflour, Sugar, White Wine Vinegar, Tomato Purée, Pasteurised Egg Yolk, Salt, Concentrated Lemon Juice, Sunflower Oil, Rapeseed Oil, Parsley, Vinegar, Tomato, Black Treacle, Barley Malt Vinegar, Onion, Paprika, Tamarind, Garlic Purée, Red Peppers, White Pepper, Dried Garlic, Cloves, Black Pepper, Lemon Oil

As written on the pack

Cooked Pasta (21%) (Water, Durum Wheat Semolina (contains Gluten)), Cooked Prawns (Crustacean) (15%), Cucumber (13%), Carrots (11%), Iceberg Lettuce, Water, Sweetcorn (8%), Rapeseed Oil, Cornflour, Sugar, White Wine Vinegar, Tomato Purée, Pasteurised Egg Yolk, Salt, Concentrated Lemon Juice, Sunflower Oil, Rapeseed Oil, Parsley, Vinegar, Tomato, Black Treacle, Barley Malt Vinegar, Onion Purée, Ground Paprika, Tamarind Extract, Garlic Purée, Red Peppers, Ground White Pepper, Dried Garlic, Ground Cloves, Ground Black Pepper, Lemon Oil

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.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

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 56th. 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 00105903, last edited 8 May 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.