Is Sainsbury’s salmon en croute ultra-processed?

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It's processed, but not ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

Salt
Vegetable oil
Cheese
Milk powder

43 ingredients
No additives

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Pastry (Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Water, Palm Oil, Rapeseed Oil, Salt (processing marker)), Salmon (Salmo salar), Double Cream (Cows' Milk), Mature Cheddar Cheese (processing marker) (Cows' Milk), Cream Cheese (processing marker) (Water, Double Cream (Cows' Milk), Skimmed Cows' Milk Powder (processing marker), Buttermilk Powder (Cows' Milk), Salt (processing marker)), Water, Cornflour, Lemon Juice, Leeks, Fish Stock (Water, Potato, Salt (processing marker), Fish, Atlantic Cod (Gadus morhua), Lemon Juice from Concentrate, Dried Onion, Anchovy (Engraulidae spp), Sunflower Oil (processing marker)), Salt (processing marker), White Pepper

As written on the pack

Pastry (Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Water, Palm Oil, Rapeseed Oil, Salt), Salmon (Salmo salar) (Fish) (34%), Double Cream (Cows' Milk), Mature Cheddar Cheese (Cows' Milk) (5%), Cream Cheese (Water, Double Cream (Cows' Milk), Skimmed Cows' Milk Powder, Buttermilk Powder (Cows' Milk), Salt), Water, Cornflour, Lemon Juice, Leeks, Fish Stock (Water, Reconstituted Dried Potato, Salt, Fish Powder, Reconstituted Atlantic Cod (Gadus morhua) (Fish), Lemon Juice from Concentrate, Dried Onion, Anchovy (Engraulidae spp) (Fish), Sunflower Oil), Salt, White Pepper.

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.
Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.

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.
Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5063334006655, 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.
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The NOVA group is an automated estimate from crowdsourced data: a missing or mistyped ingredient can change it.
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.