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Is Morrisons Dry cured honey roast ham ultra-processed?

Hams Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Morrisons Dry cured honey roast ham

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:

  • 16 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

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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

honey for succ exceptional flavour, bry slived sock legs, cooked, roasted with orange blossom honey 100g e cured and finely sliced, ingredients pork, honey 4%, preservatives (potassium lactate, sodium acetates, sodium nitrite), salt, demerara sugar, sugar, antioxidant (sodium ascorbate), nutrition per slice

Additives: E250 Sodium nitrite , E262 Sodium acetates , E301 Sodium ascorbate , E326 Potassium lactate

As written on the pack

honey for succ exceptional flavour. bry slived sock legs, cooked, roasted with orange blossom honey 100g e cured and finely sliced. ingredients pork, honey (4%), preservatives (potassium lactate, sodium acetates, sodium nitrite), salt, demerara sugar, sugar, antioxidant (sodium ascorbate). prepared with 119g of pork per 100g of finished product. nutrition per slice

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.

  • E326 Potassium lactate Antioxidants are substances which prolong the shelf-life of foods by protecting them against deterioration caused by oxidation, such as fat rancidity and colour changes.
6 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.

  • E250 Sodium nitrite 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.
  • Prepared meats Products in the category "Prepared meats" are at least group 3.
  • Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 223 hams

From least to most processed, this one ranks 127th. 65% of the hams 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 223 hams, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5010251918189, last edited 26 June 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.