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Is Specially Selected Cheese & Dill Salmon Wellington ultra-processed?

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Pack of Specially Selected Cheese & Dill Salmon Wellington

Yes, it's ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

  • 48 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), puff pastry 36% (Wheat Flour, Margarine (Palm Oil, Rapeseed Oil, Water, Salt, Flavouring, Emulsifier (mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids), Acidity Regulator (Citric Acid), Vitamin A), Water, Salt), cheese 22%, dill sauce 22% (Water, Full Fat Soft Cheese, Cheddar Cheese, Maize Starch, Wheat Flour, Onion, Cream, Butter, Salt, Garlic, Dill, Mustard (Mustard Seeds, Turmeric), Pepper, Yeast Extract, Lactose, Onion, Dried Glucose Syrup, Rapeseed Oil, Lovage, Turmeric, Nutmeg, Garlic, Rosemary Extract), Egg Yolk (Egg Yolk, Water, Salt)

Additives: E330 Citric acid , E392 Extracts of rosemary , E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids

As written on the pack

ATLANTIC SALMON (Salmo salar) (41%) (Fish), PUFF PASTRY (36%) [Wheat Flour, Margarine (Palm Oil, Rapeseed Oil, Water, Salt, Flavouring, Emulsifier: Mono - and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids; Acidity Regulator: Citric Acid; Vitamin A), Water, Salt], CHEESE AND DILL SAUCE (22%) [Water, Full Fat Soft Cheese (Milk), Cheddar Cheese (Milk), Maize Starch, Wheat Flour, Onion, Cream (Milk), Butter (Milk), Salt, Garlic, Dill, Mustard (Mustard Seeds, Turmeric), Pepper, Yeast Extract, Lactose (Milk), Onion Powder, Dried Glucose Syrup, Rapeseed Oil, Lovage, Turmeric, Nutmeg, Garlic Powder, Rosemary Extract], Egg Yolk (Egg Yolk, Water, Salt).

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.

  • E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids are made from fats and glycerol.
  • Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.

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.
  • Lactose Lactose is milk sugar, crystallised industrially from whey, a by-product of cheese making.
4 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.

  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

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About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4088600038179, 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.