Is Sainsbury's Sweet Chilli Scottish Salmon Roast Fillets ultra-processed?

Salmon fillets Sold in the United Kingdom

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Glucose
Glucose syrup
Fructose
E160c Paprika extract

14 ingredients
2 additives
Nutri-Score D

Less processed salmon fillets

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

Scottish salmon, Demerara sugar (processing marker), sugar (processing marker), salt (processing marker), fructose (ultra-processing marker), chilli, glucose syrup (ultra-processing marker), red pepper, dried garlic, dried onion, parsley, citric acid, paprika extract (ultra-processing marker), chilli

Additives: E160c Paprika extract , E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

Scottish salmon, Demerara sugar, sugar, salt, fructose, chilli powder, glucose syrup, red pepper, dried garlic, dried onion, parsley, citric acid, paprika extract, chilli extract

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.

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.

Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.

2 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.

Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 28 salmon fillets

From least to most processed, this one ranks 23rd. 32% of the salmon fillets 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 28 salmon fillets, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00108171, last edited 4 August 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.