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Is The Fishmonger 2 Salmon Fillets lemon, garlic & herb ultra-processed?

220 g Salmon fillets Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of The Fishmonger 2 Salmon Fillets lemon, garlic & herb

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:

  • 33 ingredients
  • 6 additives
  • Nutri-Score A

Less processed salmon fillets

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

atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), lemon, garlic 13%, herb marinade 13% (Water, Salt, Sodium Acetate, Sodium Carbonates, Sodium Citrates, Glucose Syrup, Dextrose, Citric Acid, Ascorbic Acid, Sodium Ascorbate, Spice Extract, Sugar, Lemon Juice Concentrate, Lemon Oil, Maltodextrin, Potato Starch, Black Pepper, Cinnamon, Fenugreek Seeds, Garlic, Lemon Peel, Oregano, Parsley, Rosemary, Mandarin Juice, Rapeseed Oil, Lemon Oil, Turmeric Extract)

Additives: E100 Curcumin , E262 Sodium acetates , E262i Sodium acetate , E300 Ascorbic acid , E301 Sodium ascorbate , E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

ATLANTIC SALMON (Salmo salar) (FISH) (87%), LEMON, GARLIC & HERB MARINADE (13%) (Water, Salt, Stabilisers: Sodium Acetate, Sodium Carbonates, Sodium Citrates; Glucose Syrup, Dextrose, Acid: Citric Acid; Antioxidants: Ascorbic Acid, Sodium Ascorbate; Spice Extract, Sugar, Lemon Juice Concentrate, Lemon Oil, Maltodextrin, Potato Starch, Black Pepper, Cinnamon, Fenugreek Seeds, Garlic, Lemon Peel, Oregano, Parsley, Rosemary, Mandarin Juice, Rapeseed Oil, Lemon Oil, Turmeric Extract). 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.

  • 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.

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.
  • Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down 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.

  • 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 28 salmon fillets

From least to most processed, this one ranks 27th. 32% of the salmon fillets 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 salmon fillets, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4061462450761, last edited 31 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 A (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.