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Is Marks and Spencer Vegetable kievs ultra-processed?

Meat analogues Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Marks and Spencer Vegetable kievs

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:

  • 18 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed meat analogues

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

Mushrooms 14%, ? Sweetcorn 9%, Onions ? Cooked Brown Rice (Water ? Brown Rice), Pois 7%, ? Carrots ? Dried Potatoes ? Red Peppers 5%, ? Yellow Peppers 5% (With Wheatflour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), ? Water ? Cream Cheese, ? Whipping Cream, ? Unsalted Butter, ? Coriander ? Whole Milk ? Cornflour ? Garlic Purée ? Ground Spices (Cumin ? Cayenne Pepper ? Paprika), ? Salt ? Thyme ? Parsley ? Dried Yeast ? Red Chillies ? Cracked Black Pepper ? Lemon Juice

As written on the pack

Mushrooms (14%) ? Sweetcorn (9%) Onions ? Cooked Brown Rice (Water ? Brown Rice) (8%) ? Pe Pois (7%) ? Carrots ? Dried Potatoes ? Red Peppers (5%) ? Yellow Peppers (5%) ? Rapeseed Oil ? Wheatflour contains Gluten (With Wheatflour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin) ? Water ? Cream Cheese (Milk) ? Whipping Cream (Milk) ? Unsalted Butter (Milk) ? Coriander ? Whole Milk ? Cornflour ? Garlic Purée ? Ground Spices (Cumin ? Cayenne Pepper ? Paprika) ? Salt ? Thyme ? Parsley ? Dried Yeast ? Red Chillies ? Cracked Black Pepper ? Lemon Juice.

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 511 meat analogues

From least to most processed, this one ranks 65th. 80% of the meat analogues 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 511 meat analogues, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00252812, 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.