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Is Marks & Spencer Smoked Salmon and Cream Cheese sandwich ultra-processed?

Club sandwiches Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Marks & Spencer Smoked Salmon and Cream Cheese sandwich

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:

  • 20 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed sandwiches

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

Wheatflour, Scottish Salmon 26% (Salmon, Salt), Soft Cheese, Water, Crème Fraîche, Butter, Wheat Gluten Pasteurised Lemon Juice Yeast (Yeast Vitamin D Yeast), Wheatgerm (with Wheatflour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), e471, e472e Malted Barley Flour, Cornflour Cracked Black Pepper Rapeseed Oil Sugar Flour Treatment Agent (Ascorbic Acid Wheat Starch)

Additives: E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids , E472e Mono- and diacetyltartaric acid esters of mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E472e Mono- and diacetyltartaric acid esters of mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids.

As written on the pack

Wholemeal Wheatflour (contains Gluten) Oak Smoked Scottish Salmon (26%) (Salmon (Fish) (97%) Salt) Soft Cheese (Milk) (18%). Water. Crème Fraîche (Milk) Butter (Milk). Wheat Gluten Pasteurised Lemon Juice Yeast (Yeast Vitamin D Yeast) Dried Fermented Wheatgerm (contains Gluten) · Salt · Muscovado Sugar Wheatflour contains Gluten (with Wheatflour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin) Emulsifier: E471, E472e Malted Barley Flour (contains Gluten). Cornflour Cracked Black Pepper Rapeseed Oil Sugar Flour Treatment Agent: Ascorbic Acid Wheat Starch (contains Gluten). ● 5 ●

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.

4 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.

  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sandwiches Products in the category "Sandwiches" are at least group 3.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 18 club sandwiches

From least to most processed, this one ranks 2nd. 100% of the club sandwiches 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 18 club sandwiches, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00205597, last edited 19 September 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.