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Is Sainsbury's Cod fillet fish fingers ultra-processed?

Fish fingers Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Sainsbury's Cod fillet fish fingers

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:

  • 26 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score A

Less processed fish fingers

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

Atlantic Cod (Gadus morhua), Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Rapeseed Oil, Water, Wheat Starch, Potato Starch, Salt, Yeast, Colours (Paprika Extract), Curcumin, Turmeric, 2 Allergy advice, including cereals containing gluten, Safety (Although every care has been taken to remove all bones), some may remain, Responsibly sourced The cod in this product comes from a fishery that has been independently certified to 's standard for a well-managed and sustainable fishery, www. .org, C-50544 Eat 2 Fish A Week Make 1 Oily

Additives: E100 Curcumin , E160c Paprika extract

As written on the pack

Atlantic Cod (Gadus morhua) (Fish) (64%), Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Rapeseed Oil, Water, Wheat Starch, Potato Starch, Salt, Yeast, Colours: Paprika Extract, Curcumin; Turmeric. 2 Allergy advice: For allergens, including cereals containing gluten, see ingredients in bold. Safety: Although every care has been taken to remove all bones, some may remain. Responsibly sourced The cod in this product comes from a fishery that has been independently certified to the MSC's standard for a well-managed and sustainable fishery. www.msc.org. MSC-C-50544 Eat 2 Fish A Week Make 1 Oily

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.
  • E160c Paprika extract Paprika extract is a red-orange colour extracted from paprika peppers.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
2 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 63 fish fingers

From least to most processed, this one ranks 54th. 63% of the fish fingers 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 63 fish fingers, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00456814, last edited 5 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.