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Is Tesco Smoked Salmon, Tuna & Prawn Sushi ultra-processed?

136g Sushis Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Tesco Smoked Salmon, Tuna & Prawn Sushi

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:

  • 37 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed sushis

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 White Sushi Rice (Water, White Rice, Sugar, Spirit Vinegar, Rice Vinegar, Salt Rapeseed Oil, Fructose-Glucose Syrup, Cane Molasses), Cucumber, Prawn, Pepper, Salmon, Soy Sauce Bottle (Water, Soya Beans, Salt, Rice Vinegar), Rapeseed Oil, White Sesame Seeds, Spinach, Nori Seaweed, Certified Tuna, Black Sesame, Cornflour, Pasteurised Egg Yolk, Spirit Vinegar, Salt, Sugar, Red Chilli Purée, Spring Onion, Chive, Garlic Purée, Lime Juice, Onion, Paprika Extract, Curcumin

Additives: E100 Curcumin , E160c Paprika extract

As written on the pack

Cooked White Sushi Rice [Water, White Rice, Sugar, Spirit Vinegar, Rice Vinegar, Salt Rapeseed Oil, Fructose-Glucose Syrup, Cane Molasses], Cucumber, Prawn (Crustacean) (5%), Pepper, Salmon (Fish) (3%), Soy Sauce Bottle [Water, Soya Beans, Salt, Rice Vinegar], Rapeseed Oil, White Sesame Seeds, Spinach, Nori Seaweed, MSC Certified Tuna (Fish), Black Sesame Seeds, Cornflour, Pasteurised Egg Yolk, Spirit Vinegar, Salt, Sugar, Red Chilli Purée, Spring Onion, Chive, Garlic Purée, Concentrated Lime Juice, Onion Purée, Colours (Paprika Extract, Curcumin).

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.
  • E160c Paprika extract Paprika extract is a red-orange colour extracted from paprika peppers.

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.
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.

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 24 sushis

From least to most processed, this one ranks 13th. 88% of the sushis 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 24 sushis, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5063250539367, last edited 14 August 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.