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Is Sainsbury's Love Your Veg 2 Veggie Burgers ultra-processed?

Vegan patties Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Sainsbury's Love Your Veg 2 Veggie 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:

  • 36 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed vegan patties

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

Mushroom 24%, Pea Flour 11%, Water, Fried Onion 9% (Onions, Rapeseed Oil), Peas 8%, Sweetcorn 7%, Brown Rice (Water, Brown Rice, Salt), Red Kidney Beans (Water, Red Kidney Beans), Carrot 5%, Coriander, Pea Fibre 2.5%, Pea Starch 2.5%, Roast Garlic Puree, Breadcrumb (Rice Flour, Maize Flour, Maize Starch, Salt, Dextrose), Red Chilli Puree, Salt, Stabiliser (Methyl Cellulose), Cumin, Cracked Black Pepper, Colour (Paprika Extract), Preservative (Sodium Metabisulphite)

Additives: E160c Paprika extract , E223 Sodium metabisulphite , E461 Methyl cellulose

As written on the pack

Mushroom (24%), Pea Flour (11%), Water, Fried Onion (9%) (Onions, Rapeseed Oil), Peas (8%), Sweetcorn (7%), Cooked Brown Rice (Water, Brown Rice, Salt), Cooked Red Kidney Beans (Water, Red Kidney Beans), Carrot (5%), Coriander, Pea Fibre (2.5%), Pea Starch (2.5%), Roast Garlic Puree, Breadcrumb (Rice Flour, Maize Flour, Maize Starch, Salt, Dextrose), Red Chilli Puree, Salt, Stabiliser: Methyl Cellulose; Cumin Powder, Cracked Black Pepper, Colour: Paprika Extract; Preservative: Sodium Metabisulphite (Sulphites).

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.

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

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.

  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 23 vegan patties

From least to most processed, this one ranks 19th. 83% of the vegan patties 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 23 vegan patties, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00330824, 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.