Is Sainsbury's Scottish Salmon Fishcakes ultra-processed?

270g 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
Vegetable oil

36 ingredients
No additives
Nutri-Score B

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

Salmon (Salmo salar), Potato 24%, Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Water, Rapeseed Oil, Double Cream (Cows' Milk), Salt (processing marker), Cornflour, Parsley, Yeast, Cider Vinegar, Wheat Flour, Paprika, Concentrated Lemon Juice, 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)), Black Pepper, White Pepper, Starter Culture

As written on the pack

Salmon (Salmo salar) (Fish) (38%), Potato (24%), Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Water, Rapeseed Oil, Double Cream (Cows' Milk), Salt, Cornflour, Parsley, Yeast, Cider Vinegar, Wheat Flour, Paprika, Concentrated Lemon Juice, 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), Black Pepper, White Pepper, Starter Culture.

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

How the NOVA groups work

Among 113 salmons

From least to most processed, this one ranks 85th. 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 01863826, last edited 26 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 B (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.