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Is Taiko King Prawn Poke ultra-processed?

Sushi and Maki Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Taiko King Prawn Poke

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:

  • 55 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed sushi and Maki

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

Cooked rice (water, rice, sugar, spirit vinegar, rice vinegar, salt, rapeseed oil, fructose-glucose syrup, cane molasses), king prawns 14% (king prawns, salt), avocado 7%, seaweed, water, red cabbage (red cabbage, rice vinegar, sugar, salt), onion, carrot, sugar, rice vinegar, toasted sesame seed oil, salt, palm oil, apple cider vinegar, soya beans, wheat, wheat flour, white sesame seeds, yuzu, seaweed agar, rice wine, oligofructose syrup, red chilli, wood ear mushrooms, tapioca starch, modified maize starch, onion, spirit vinegar, apple juice, ginger, alcohol, lemon juice concentrate, lime juice concentrate, garlic, white pepper, spirulina, colour (curcumin), White, light green semi-translucent hard jelly-like substance is edible seaweed

Additives: E100 Curcumin , E406 Agar

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E406 Agar.

As written on the pack

Cooked rice (water, rice, sugar, spirit vinegar, rice vinegar, salt, rapeseed oil, fructose-glucose syrup, cane molasses), king prawns (14%) (king prawns (crustacean), salt), avocado (7%), seaweed, water, pickled red cabbage (red cabbage, rice vinegar, sugar, salt), onion, carrot, sugar, rice vinegar, toasted sesame seed oil, salt, palm oil, apple cider vinegar, soya beans, wheat, wheat flour, white sesame seeds, yuzu juice, seaweed agar*, rice wine, oligofructose syrup, red chilli, wood ear mushrooms, tapioca starch, modified maize starch, onion purée, spirit vinegar, apple juice concentrate, ginger purée, alcohol, lemon juice concentrate, lime juice concentrate, garlic powder, white pepper, spirulina, colour (curcumin). White/light green semi-translucent hard jelly-like substance is edible seaweed.

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.

  • E100 Curcumin Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
  • E406 Agar A food additive used to dissolve, dilute, disperse or otherwise physically modify a food additive or nutrient without altering its function -and without exerting any technological effect itself- in order to facilitate its handling, application or use of the food additive or nutrient.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.

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.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
5 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.

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 28 sushi and Maki

From least to most processed, this one ranks 20th. 86% of the sushi and Maki 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 sushi and Maki, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5035272740731, 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.