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Is Tesco Plant Chef All Day Breakfast ultra-processed?

Sandwiches Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Tesco Plant Chef All Day Breakfast

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:

  • 73 ingredients
  • 7 additives
  • Nutri-Score B

Less processed sandwiches

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

wheat flour, lincolnshire style meat-free sausage coins with mushroom 21%, wheat protein 21% (mushroom, wheat fibre, water, onion, wheat gluten, pea protein, red pepper, dextrose, palm oil, rapeseed oil, salt, pea fibre, methyl cellulose, wheat flour, white pepper, onion powder, cracked black pepper, sage, parsley, mace, oregano, marjoram, ginger, thyme, sunflower oil), water, tofu (water, soya bean, sea salt, magnesium chloride), tofu (water, soya bean, magnesium chloride), malted wheat flakes, rapeseed oil, tomato, wheat bran, tomato paste, spirit vinegar, sugar, onion, cornflour, cider vinegar, yeast, malted barley flour, salt, mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids, mono- and diacetyl tartaric acid esters of mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids, courgette, red pepper, wheat gluten, faba bean protein, malted wheat flour, black salt, wheat fibre, brown mustard seeds, black pepper, concentrated lemon juice, pectin, ascorbic acid, palm oil, turmeric, spices, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin, meat-free sausage filled into plant-based casings

Additives: E170 Calcium carbonates , E170i Calcium carbonate , E300 Ascorbic acid , E440 Pectins , E461 Methyl cellulose , E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids , E472e Mono- and diacetyltartaric acid esters of mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids

As written on the pack

wheat flour, lincolnshire style meat-free sausage coins with mushroom and wheat protein (21%) [mushroom, wheat fibre, water, onion, wheat gluten, pea protein, red pepper, dextrose, palm oil, rapeseed oil, salt, pea fibre, stabiliser (methyl cellulose), wheat flour. ground white pepper, onion powder, cracked black pepper, sage, parsley, mace, oregano leaves, marjoram, ginger, thyme, sunflower oil], water, smoked tofu [water, soya bean, sea salt, magnesium chloride], tofu [water, soya bean, magnesium chloride], malted wheat flakes, rapeseed oil, tomato, wheat bran, tomato paste, spirit vinegar, sugar, onion, cornflour, cider vinegar, yeast, malted barley flour, salt, emulsifiers (mono - and diglycerides of fatty acids, mono - and diacetyl tartaric acid esters of mono - and diglycerides of fatty acids). courgette, red pepper, wheat gluten, faba bean protein, malted wheat flour, black salt, wheat fibre. brown mustard seeds, black pepper, concentrated lemon juice, gelling agent (pectin), flour treatment agent (ascorbic acid), palm oil, turmeric, spices. wheat flour contains: wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin. meat-free sausage filled into plant-based casings.

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.

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.
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.

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

How the NOVA groups work

Among 324 sandwiches

From least to most processed, this one ranks 297th. 82% of the sandwiches 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 324 sandwiches, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5059697709982, last edited 12 September 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 B (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.