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Is Plant Menu Tex Mex Style No Chicken Smash Burgers ultra-processed?

2x113g Hamburgers Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Plant Menu Tex Mex Style No Chicken Smash Burgers

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:

  • 42 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed hamburgers

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

Water, soya protein 8%, soya protein isolate 6%, Black Turtle Beans, Rapeseed Oil, tomato salsa 5% (Tomatoes, Water, Green Bell Pepper, Tomato Purée, Onion, Spirit Vinegar, Sugar, Red Bell Pepper, Cornflour, Onion, Garlic, Cumin, Salt, Coriander Seeds, Coriander, Dried Oregano, Key Lime Oil, Black Pepper), Chicory Root Fibre, Thickener (Methyl Cellulose), Wheat Gluten, Bamboo Fibre, Flavouring, Wheat Starch, Sugar, Coriander, Green Jalapeño Chilli, Salt, Paprika, Cumin, Crushed Chill Flavouring, Spirit Vinegar, Garlic, Chilli, Black Pepper

Additives: E461 Methyl cellulose

As written on the pack

Water, SOYA PROTEIN (8%), SOYA PROTEIN ISOLATE (6%), Black Turtle Beans, Rapeseed Oil, TOMATO SALSA (5%) (Tomatoes, Water, Green Bell Pepper, Tomato Purée, Onion, Spirit Vinegar, Sugar, Red Bell Pepper, Cornflour, Onion Powder, Garlic Powder, Ground Cumin, Salt, Coriander Seeds, Dried Coriander Leaves, Dried Oregano, Key Lime Oil, Ground Black Pepper), Chicory Root Fibre, Thickener: Methyl Cellulose; Wheat Gluten, Bamboo Fibre, Flavouring, Wheat Starch, Sugar, Coriander, Green Jalapeño Chilli, Salt, Ground Paprika, Ground Cumin, Crushed Chill Flavouring, Spirit Vinegar, Garlic Powder, Chilli Powder, Ground Black Pepper

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.

  • 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.
  • Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.

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

How the NOVA groups work

Among 60 hamburgers

From least to most processed, this one ranks 47th. 62% of the hamburgers 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 60 hamburgers, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4061463004284, 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.