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Is Plant Menu Katsu no chicken fillets ultra-processed?

240 g Meat analogues from soy or wheat proteins Sold in the United Kingdom and Ireland

Pack of Plant Menu Katsu no chicken fillets

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:

  • 70 ingredients
  • 7 additives
  • Nutri-Score A

Less processed meat analogues from soy or wheat proteins

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

No Chicken Katsu Pieces 75%, Soy Protein (Soya Bean Meal, Soya Flour, Soya Protein Isolate, Wheat Gluten, Raising Agent (Sodium Carbonates), Salt), Panko (Wheat Flour, Salt, Yeast), Water, Fully Refined Soybean Oil, Soya Bean Meal, Wheat Flour, Potato Starch, Thickener (Methyl Cellulose), Garlic, Wheat Gluten, Onion, Yeast Extract, Lemon Juice, Brown Sugar, Corn Starch, Salt, Light Soy Sauce (Water, Soya Beans, Wheat Flour, Salt), Cornflour, Raising Agents (Diphosphates, Potassium Tartrates, Sodium Carbonates), Sage, Thyme, Dried Rosemary, Nutmeg, Colour (Riboflavins), Katsu Curry Sauce 25% (Water, Fully Refined Soybean Oil, Onions, Curry (Turmeric Powder, Fenugreek, Cumin, Coriander, Ginger Powder, Red Chilli, Orange, Black Pepper, Bay Leaves, Cloves, Fennel, Cinnamon Powder, Nutmeg, Caraway Seeds), Pumpkin, Modified Starch, Coconut, Yeast Extract, Sugar Cane, Salt, Corn Starch)

Additives: E101 Riboflavin , E101i Riboflavin , E14XX Modified Starch , E336 Potassium tartrates , E450 Diphosphates , E461 Methyl cellulose , E500 Sodium carbonates

As written on the pack

No Chicken Katsu Pieces 75% (Shredded Soy Protein (Soya Bean Meal, Soya Flour, Soya Protein Isolate, Wheat Gluten, Raising Agent (Sodium Carbonates), Salt), Panko Crumb (Wheat Flour, Salt, Yeast), Water, Fully Refined Soybean Oil, Soya Bean Meal, Wheat Flour, Potato Starch, Thickener (Methyl Cellulose), Garlic Powder, Wheat Gluten, Onion Powder, Yeast Extract, Lemon Juice, Brown Sugar, Corn Starch, Salt, Light Soy Sauce (Water, Soya Beans, Wheat Flour, Salt), Cornflour, Raising Agents (Diphosphates, Potassium Tartrates, Sodium Carbonates), Dried Sage, Dried Thyme, Dried Rosemary, Nutmeg Powder, Colour (Riboflavins)), Katsu Curry Sauce 25% (Water, Fully Refined Soybean Oil, Onions, Curry Powder (Turmeric Powder, Fenugreek Powder, Ground Cumin, Ground Coriander, Ginger Powder, Red Chilli Powder, Orange Powder, Ground Black Pepper, Ground Bay Leaves, Ground Cloves, Fennel Powder, Cinnamon Powder, Nutmeg Powder, Ground Caraway Seeds), Pumpkin Powder, Modified Starch, Coconut Powder, Yeast Extract, Sugar Cane, Salt, Corn Starch).

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.

  • E101 Riboflavin 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.
  • E14xx Modified Starch Modified starches (E1400 to E1452) are starches treated physically, with enzymes or chemically so that they thicken and hold up to heating, freezing or acidity better than ordinary starch.
  • E450 Diphosphates Diphosphates are phosphate salts used as raising agents in baking powder, and to hold water in processed meats and cheese.
  • 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.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.
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  • Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.

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.
4 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.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Sauce A prepared sauce used as an ingredient.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 27 meat analogues from soy or wheat proteins

From least to most processed, this one ranks 26th. 89% of the meat analogues from soy or wheat proteins 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 27 meat analogues from soy or wheat proteins, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4088600426853, 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 A (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.