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Is Red's Steak & Cheddar Burrito ultra-processed?

5 oz Burritos Sold in the United States

Pack of Red's Steak & Cheddar Burrito

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:

  • 39 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Tortilla (wheat flour, water, canola oil, cane sugar, sea salt, yeast), beef steak (beef, beef stock, less than 2% of rice starch, sea salt, lemon juice concentrate, vinegar, spices), pinto beans, cheddar cheese (milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), brown rice, low-moisture part-skim mozzarella cheese, water, yellow corn, sour cream (cultured pasteurized grade a cream (from milk), enzymes), onions, tomato paste, red bell peppers, jalapeno, sea salt, red's seasoning blend (spices, garlic), corn starch, garlic

As written on the pack

Tortilla (unbleached wheat flour, water, canola oil, cane sugar, sea salt, yeast), beef steak (beef, beef stock, less than 2% of rice starch, sea salt, lemon juice concentrate, vinegar, spices), pinto beans, cheddar cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), brown rice, low-moisture part-skim mozzarella cheese ([pasteurized part-skim milk, cheese cultures, salt & enzymes]), water, yellow corn, sour cream (cultured pasteurized grade a cream [from milk], enzymes), onions, tomato paste, red bell peppers, jalapeno, sea salt, red's seasoning blend (spices, garlic powder), corn starch, garlic powder.

What makes it processed

Processed ingredients

Processed foods in their own right, such as cheese or milk powder.

  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

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.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Bread An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.

Category rules

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

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

How the NOVA groups work

Among 20 burritos

From least to most processed, this one ranks 3rd. 75% of the burritos 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 20 burritos, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0850416002231, last edited 5 July 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.