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Is Squeaky bean Spanish chorizo style slices ultra-processed?

90g Prepared meat cuts substitutes Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Squeaky bean Spanish chorizo style slices

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:

  • 31 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score E

Less processed meat analogues

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

Water, wheat gluten 33%, coconut oil, wheat starch, sunflower oil, iodized salt (sea salt, potassium iodate), tomato concentrate, beetroot powder, spices (smoked paprika, sweet paprika, chili pepper, black pepper, cumin, nutmeg, cardamom, coriander), antioxidant (ascorbic acid), natural flavourings, red peppers 1%, dextrose, apple vinegar, onion, inactive yeast, garlic, herbs (fenugreek, thyme)

Additives: E300 Ascorbic acid

As written on the pack

Water, wheat gluten 33%, coconut oil, wheat starch, sunflower oil, iodized salt (sea salt, potassium iodate), tomato concentrate, beetroot powder, ground spices (smoked paprika, sweet paprika, chili pepper, black pepper, cumin, nutmeg, cardamom, coriander), antioxidant (ascorbic acid), natural flavourings, red peppers 1%, dextrose, apple vinegar, onion powder, inactive yeast, garlic, dried herbs (fenugreek, thyme).

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.

  • 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.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Gluten Wheat gluten, sold as "vital wheat gluten", is the protein washed out of wheat flour.
3 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.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 18 prepared meat cuts substitutes

From least to most processed, this one ranks 9th. 100% of the prepared meat cuts substitutes 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 18 prepared meat cuts substitutes, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5010292966569, 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 E (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.