Is Sainsbury's 4 Vegetable Spring Rolls ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 47 ingredients
- 2 additives
- Nutri-Score B
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Carrot, Fortified Wheat Flour, Thiamin, Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Rapeseed Oil, Red Pepper, White Cabbage, Soya Bean, Rice Flour, Water Chestnut, Water, Bean Sprout, Onion, Rice Vermicelli, Water, Rice, Ginger, Ginger, Water, Potato Starch (processing marker), Sesame Oil (processing marker), Soy Sauce (processing marker), Salt (processing marker), Water, Soya Bean, Wheat, Garlic Puree, Sugar (processing marker), Salt (processing marker), Yeast Extract, Dextrose (ultra-processing marker), Stabiliser, Hydroxypropyl Methyl Cellulose (ultra-processing marker), Fennel, Cinnamon, Black Pepper, Rice Starch (processing marker), Star Anise, Cane Molasses (processing marker), White Pepper, Clove, Maltodextrin (ultra-processing marker), Mushroom Powder, Acacia Gum (ultra-processing marker)
Additives: E414 Acacia gum , E464 Hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose
As written on the pack
Carrot, Fortified Wheat Flour, Thiamin, Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Rapeseed Oil, Red Pepper, White Cabbage, Soya Bean, Rice Flour, Water Chestnut, Water, Bean Sprout, Onion, Rice Vermicelli, Water, Rice, Ginger Puree, Ginger, Water, Potato Starch, Sesame Oil, Soy Sauce, Salt, Water, Soya Bean, Wheat, Garlic Puree, Sugar, Salt, Yeast Extract, Dextrose, Stabiliser, Hydroxypropyl Methyl Cellulose, Fennel, Cinnamon, Black Pepper, Rice Starch, Star Anise, Cane Molasses, White Pepper, Clove, Maltodextrin, Mushroom Powder, Acacia 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.
- E414 Acacia gum Gum arabic (acacia gum) is the hardened sap of acacia trees, used to stabilise flavour emulsions in soft drinks and to coat sweets.
- E464 Hydroxypropyl 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.
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.
- Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
5 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.
- Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
- Sauce A prepared sauce used as an ingredient.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00346016, last edited 20 April 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 B (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.