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Is Plant Pioneers Battered fishless fillets ultra-processed?

2 x 90g Meat analogues Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Plant Pioneers Battered fishless 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:

  • 43 ingredients
  • 12 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed meat analogues

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

Young Jackfruit 28%, Water, Wheat Flour, Fully Refined Soya Bean Oil, King Oyster Mushroom 8%, Potato 7%, Corn Starch, Soya Protein, Tapioca Starch, Yeast Extract, Potato Starch, Vegetable Fibre, Salt, Rice Flour, Granulated Sugar, Rice Starch, Raising Agents (Sodium Bicarbonate), Calcium Phosphate, Disodium Diphosphate, Calcium Carbonate, Pineapple, Stabilisers (Methyl Cellulose), Carboxymethylcellulose, Natural Flavouring, Dextrose, White Pepper, Shiitake Mushroom, Citrus Fibre, Garlic, Onion, Onion, Seaweed, Soya Bean, Yeast, Colours (Curcumin), Beta-carotene, Acidity Regulator (Citric Acid), Thickener (Xanthan Gum)

Additives: E100 Curcumin , E160a Carotene , E160ai Beta-carotene , E330 Citric acid , E341 Calcium phosphates , E415 Xanthan gum , E450 Diphosphates , E450i Disodium diphosphate , E461 Methyl cellulose , E466 Sodium carboxy methyl cellulose , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

Young Jackfruit (28%), Water, Wheat Flour, Fully Refined Soya Bean Oil, King Oyster Mushroom (8%), Potato (7%), Corn Starch, Soya Protein, Tapioca Starch, Yeast Extract, Potato Starch, Vegetable Fibre, Salt, Rice Flour, Granulated Sugar, Rice Starch, Raising Agents: Sodium Bicarbonate, Calcium Phosphate, Disodium Diphosphate, Calcium Carbonate; Pineapple, Stabilisers: Methyl Cellulose, Carboxymethylcellulose; Natural Flavouring, Dextrose, White Pepper, Shiitake Mushroom, Citrus Fibre, Garlic, Onion, Onion Powder, Seaweed, Soya Bean, Yeast, Colours: Curcumin, Beta-carotene; Acidity Regulator: Citric Acid; Thickener: Xanthan Gum.

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.

  • E100 Curcumin 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.
  • E160a Carotene Carotenes are orange-yellow pigments, either synthesised or extracted from carrots, algae or palm oil.
  • E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
  • 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.
  • E466 Sodium carboxy methyl cellulose Carboxymethyl cellulose is a thickener made by chemically modifying cellulose from wood or cotton.
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  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • 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.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • 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.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 512 meat analogues

From least to most processed, this one ranks 508th. 80% of the meat analogues 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.

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About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00398572, 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.