Is it ultra-processed?
Menu

Is Sainsbury's Quarter Pounder Beef Burgers ultra-processed?

Hamburgers Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Sainsbury's Quarter Pounder Beef Burgers

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:

  • 15 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

British Beef 86%, Water, Onion, Crumb (Rice Flour, Gram Flour, Maize Starch, Salt, er Dextrose), Seasoning (Salt, Sugar, Black Pepper, Sodium Metabisulphite, Ascorbic Acid)

Additives: E223 Sodium metabisulphite , E300 Ascorbic acid

As written on the pack

British Beef (86%), Water, Onion, Crumb (Rice Flour, Gram Flour, Maize Starch, Salt, er Dextrose), Seasoning (Salt, Sugar, Black Pepper, Preservative: Sodium Metabisulphite (Sulphites); Antioxidant: Ascorbic Acid).

What makes it processed

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.

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 60 hamburgers

From least to most processed, this one ranks 22nd. 62% of the hamburgers 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 60 hamburgers, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 01389814, last edited 30 September 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.