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Is Morrisons Vegetable samosa ultra-processed?

Vegetable samosas Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Morrisons Vegetable samosa

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:

  • 42 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed salty snacks

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

Delicious, mildly spiced large vegetable samosa, be eaten either hot and cold, Ingredients Potato 26% (potato, preservative), Fortified wheat flour (wheat flour, iron, thiamin, nicotinic acid, calcium carbonate), Onion 17%, Rapeseed oil, Carrot 7%, Peas 4%, Vegetable shortening (palm oil, rapeseed oil), Lemon juice from concentrate, Poppy seeds, Salt, Turmeric, Cumin seed, Garam masala (coriander, cumin, ginger, black pepper, clove, cardamom, nutmeg, star anise), Ginger, Cornflour, Sugar, Green chilli, Fenugreek, Cinnamon, Coriander leaf, Chilli, BOY ADVICE Fallersons including cereals containing gluten

Additives: E220 Sulphur dioxide

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E220 Sulphur dioxide.

As written on the pack

Delicious, mildly spiced large vegetable samosa, be eaten either hot or cold. Ingredients Potato (26%) (potato, preservative (sulphur dioxide)), Fortified wheat flour (wheat flour, iron, thiamin, nicotinic acid, calcium carbonate), Onion (17%), Rapeseed oil, Carrot (7%), Peas (4%), Vegetable shortening (palm oil, rapeseed oil), Lemon juice from concentrate, Poppy seeds, Salt, Turmeric, Cumin seed, Garam masala (coriander, cumin, ginger, black pepper, clove, cardamom, nutmeg, star anise), Ginger purée, Cornflour, Sugar, Green chilli, Fenugreek, Cinnamon, Coriander leaf, Chilli powder. BOY ADVICE Fallersons including cereals containing gluten,

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.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable fat Vegetable fats are oils that are solid at room temperature, such as palm or coconut fat.

Preservation and traditional processing

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

  • E220 Sulphur dioxide Sulphur dioxide is a preservative and antioxidant used in dried fruit, wine and some drinks.
  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.

Category rules

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

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

How the NOVA groups work

Among 9 vegetable samosas

From least to most processed, this one ranks 6th. 33% of the vegetable samosas 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 9 vegetable samosas, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5010251587286, last edited 2 October 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.