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Is Sainsburys Taste the difference King Prawn & Lemongrass Fishcakes ultra-processed?

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Pack of Sainsburys Taste the difference King Prawn & Lemongrass Fishcakes

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:

  • 34 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

King prawn 27% (King prawn (Penaeus vannamei), Water, Salt), Cooked White Rice 17%, Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Water, Certified Alaska Pollock (Theragra chalcogramma), Rapeseed Oil, Coconut Milk, Red Pepper, Spring Onion, Rice Flakes, Garlic Purée, Lemongrass, Salt, Yeast, Ginger, Lime Juice, Cornflour, Soya Bean, Wheat, Paprika, Sugar, Coriander, Lemongrass Oil, Black Pepper

As written on the pack

King prawn (27%) (King prawn (Penaeus vannamei) (Crustacean), Water, Salt), Cooked White Rice (17%), Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Water, MSC Certified Alaska Pollock (Theragra chalcogramma) (Fish) (8%), Rapeseed Oil, Coconut Milk, Red Pepper, Spring Onion, Rice Flakes, Garlic Purée, Lemongrass Purée, Salt, Yeast, Ginger Purée, Lime Juice, Cornflour, Soya Bean, Wheat, Paprika, Sugar, Coriander, Lemongrass Oil, Black Pepper.

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.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 01863918, 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.
  • 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.