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Is Morrisons Potato Salad ultra-processed?

300g Potato salads Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Morrisons Potato Salad

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:

  • 21 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Potato 65%, Mayonnaise dressing 30% (rapeseed oil, water, sugar, spirit vinegar, egg, white wine vinegar, salt, corn starch, egg yolk, mustard), Spring onion 2%, Soured cream, Spirit vinegar, Chive, Preservatives (lactic acid, potassium sorbate), a t114355, 0321 p36081 688

Additives: E202 Potassium sorbate , E270 Lactic acid

As written on the pack

Potato (65%), Mayonnaise dressing (30%) (rapeseed oil, water, sugar, spirit vinegar, egg, white wine vinegar, salt, corn starch, dried egg yolk, mustard powder), Spring onion (2%), Soured cream (milk), Spirit vinegar, Chive, Preservatives (lactic acid, potassium sorbate). A T114355/0321 P36081 688

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

Preservation and traditional processing

Keep food safe or ferment it, like preservatives and cultures. A sign of processing, not ultra-processing.

  • E202 Potassium sorbate 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.
  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 28 potato salads

From least to most processed, this one ranks 3rd. 89% of the potato salads 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 28 potato salads, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5010251435044, 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.