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Is Marks & Spencer Vegetables spring rolls ultra-processed?

215 g Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Marks & Spencer Vegetables spring rolls

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:

  • 55 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Beansprouts 13%, Water Carrots 10%, Edamame Soybeans 10%, Water G, Chestnuts 10%, Rapeseed Oil Red Peppers 6%, Cornflour, Rice Noodles 2% (Rice Flour Water), Ginger, Red Chillies, Dark Soy Sauce (Water, soybeans, wheat, Salt), Salt, Toasted Sesame Oil, Sugar, Palm Fat, Garlic Purée, Ginger, Five Spice (Fennel, Cinnamon, Star Anise, Cloves, Ginger), Dextrose, Toban, Jhan (Red Chillies, Salt Soybeans, rapeseed, Oil Water, Ginger, Chillies, Acidity Regulator (Citric Acid), Wheat), Emulsifier (E47), Mushrooms, Soybeans, vegetable Oil (Sunflower vegetable Oil, Rapeseed vegetable Oil), Rice, Ground Star, Anise, Antioxidant (e307), Mushrooms, Onion Extract, yeast

Additives: E307 Alpha-tocopherol , E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

Wheatflour contains Gluten (with Wheatflour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin) Beansprouts (13%). Water Carrots (10%) Edamame Soybeans (10%) Water G, Chestnuts (10%) Rapeseed Oil Red Peppers (6%) Cornflour. Cooked Rice Noodles (2%), (Rice Flour Water), Ginger - Red Chillies, Dark Soy Sauce (Water, soybeans,wheat (contains Gluten), Salt), Salt, Toasted Sesame Oil, Sugar, Dried Palm Fat, Garlic Purée, Ginger Purée, Five Spice (Fennel, Cinnamon, Star Anise, Cloves, Ginger) Dextrose, Toban, Jhan (Red Chillies, Salt Soybeans, rapeseed, Oil Water. Ginger Purée, Dried Chillies, Acidity Regulator: Citric Acid - Wheat (contains Gluten)) Emulsifier: E47, Concentrated Mushrooms, Soybeans, vegetable Oil (Sunflower/Rapeseed). Rice - Ground Star, Anise, Antioxidant: E307, Dried Mushrooms, Onion Extract, yeast.

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.

  • Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.

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.
5 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.

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
  • 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.
  • Sauce A prepared sauce used as an ingredient.

How the NOVA groups work

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00090056, last edited 25 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.