Is Sainsbury's Salmon pate ultra-processed?

100g Salmons Sold in the United Kingdom

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

Salt
Starch
Sugar
Cheese

14 ingredients
No additives
Nutri-Score D

Less processed salmons

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

Full Fat Soft Cheese (processing marker) (Cows' Milk), Crème Fraîche (Cows' Milk), Scottish Salmon 25% (Salmon (Salmo salar), Sea Salt (processing marker), Demerara Sugar (processing marker)), Scottish Salmon 15% (Salmon (Salmo salar)), Maize Starch (processing marker), Lemon Juice

As written on the pack

Full Fat Soft Cheese (Cows' Milk), Crème Fraîche (Cows' Milk), Smoked Scottish Salmon (25%) (Salmon (Salmo salar) (Fish), Sea Salt, Demerara Sugar), Cooked Scottish Salmon (15%) (Salmon (Salmo salar) (Fish)), Maize Starch, Lemon Juice

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.

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.

Prepared meats Products in the category "Prepared meats" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 113 salmons

From least to most processed, this one ranks 81st. 25% of the salmons 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 113 salmons, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00420389, 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 D (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.