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Is Tesco finest 2 Beer Battered Cod Fillets ultra-processed?

Frozen seafood Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Tesco finest 2 Beer Battered Cod Fillets

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:

  • 38 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score A

Less processed frozen seafood

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

Cod, Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium, Folic Acid, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Rapeseed Oil, Black Sheep AleTM (Barley, Wheat), Flavourings, Rice Flour, Palm Oil, Tapioca Starch, Gram Flour, Salt, Dextrose, Wheat Fibre, Maize Flour, Wheat Gluten, Maize Starch, Skimmed Milk, Colour (Paprika Extract), Made using cod caught in the NE Atlantic, Barents Sea, NE Atlantic, Norwegian Sea, NE Atlantic, Iceland, NE Atlantic, using trawls, hooks and lines, seines, gillnets and similar nets, OUR PRO We make of the b happ which aska you Fre Allergy Advice

Additives: E160c Paprika extract

As written on the pack

Cod (Fish) (66%), Wheat Flour [Wheat Flour, Calcium, Folic Acid, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin], Rapeseed Oil, Black Sheep AleTM (Barley, Wheat) (0.8%), Flavourings, Rice Flour, Palm Oil, Tapioca Starch, Gram Flour, Salt, Dextrose, Wheat Fibre, Maize Flour, Wheat Gluten, Maize Starch, Dried Skimmed Milk, Colour (Paprika Extract). Made using cod caught in the NE Atlantic - Barents Sea, NE Atlantic - Norwegian Sea, NE Atlantic - Iceland, NE Atlantic - Faroe Islands using trawls, hooks and lines, seines, gillnets and similar nets. OUR PRO We make of the b happ which aska you Fre Allergy Advice

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.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • 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.
  • Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
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.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 90 frozen seafood

From least to most processed, this one ranks 86th. 79% of the frozen seafood 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 90 frozen seafood, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5059697679841, last edited 21 April 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 A (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.