Is Moving Mountains Plant Based Quarter Pounder Burgers ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 23 ingredients
- 3 additives
- Nutri-Score D
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Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Water, vegetables (oyster mushrooms, mushrooms, onion), vegetable oil (processing marker) (coconut vegetable oil), vegetable protein (Soya protein 5.9%, Soya protein isolate 2.1%, pea protein isolate 1.4%), Wheat gluten (ultra-processing marker), natural flavouring (ultra-processing marker), starch (processing marker) (Wheat), Oat fibre (ultra-processing marker), methyl cellulose (ultra-processing marker), Barley malt extract, vinegar, beetroot red (ultra-processing marker), salt (processing marker), lactic acid, vitamin B12
Additives: E162 Beetroot red , E270 Lactic acid , E461 Methyl cellulose
As written on the pack
Water, vegetables (oyster mushrooms, mushrooms, onion), vegetable oil (coconut), vegetable protein (5.9% Soya protein, 2.1% Soya protein isolate, 1.4% pea protein isolate), Wheat gluten, natural flavouring, starch (Wheat), Oat fibre, thickener (methyl cellulose), Barley malt extract, vinegar, colour (beetroot red), salt, preservative (lactic acid), vitamin B12.
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.
- E162 Beetroot red Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
- E461 Methyl cellulose Emulsifiers are substances which make it possible to form or maintain a homogenous mixture of two or more immiscible phases such as oil and water in a foodstuff.
- Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
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.
- Gluten Wheat gluten, sold as "vital wheat gluten", is the protein washed out of wheat flour.
- Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
3 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.
- Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
- Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
- Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
Among 59 vegetarian patties
From least to most processed, this one ranks 43rd. 78% of the vegetarian patties here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5060728270173, last edited 31 August 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 D (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.