Is Marks & Spencer Chorizo & chilli cheddar rollitos ultra-processed?

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Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Dextrose
Glucose

16 ingredients
2 additives
Nutri-Score E

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Chilli Cheddar Cheese 64%, Chorizo Pork Sausage 36%, Chilli Cheddar Cheese 64%, contains Cheddar Cheese (processing marker), Red Chilli Peppers Red Peppers, Chorizo Pork Sausage 36% (made with 125g raw Pork per 100g of Chorizo), Curing Salt (Salt Preservative (Potassium Nitrate (processing marker)), Sodium Nitrite), Ground Smoked Paprika Garlic Purée, Dextrose (ultra-processing marker), Antioxidant (e301 Ground Nutmeg Dried Oregano, e 6)

Additives: E252 Potassium nitrate , E301 Sodium ascorbate

As written on the pack

Chilli Cheddar Cheese (64%) Chorizo Pork Sausage (36%). Chilli Cheddar Cheese (64%) contains Cheddar Cheese (Milk) - Red Chilli Peppers Red Peppers. Chorizo Pork Sausage (36%) contains Pork (made with 125g raw Pork per 100g of Chorizo) Curing Salt (Salt Preservative: Potassium Nitrate, Sodium Nitrite) Ground Smoked Paprika Garlic Purée - Dextrose - Antioxidant: E301 Ground Nutmeg Dried Oregano. e 6

What makes it ultra-processed

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.

E252 Potassium nitrate 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.
Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

How the NOVA groups work

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00093521, last edited 27 March 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.