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Is This Isn’t Bacon Lardons ultra-processed?

120g Bacon substitutes Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of This Isn’t Bacon Lardons

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:

  • 16 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed meat analogues

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

Water, Soya Protein 16%, Rapeseed Oil, Flavouring, Soya Protein Isolate 5%, Salt, Pea Protein Isolate 2%, Potato Starch, Vegetable Extracts (Radish, Carrot, Paprika), Maltodextrin, Smoke Flavouring, Iron, Vitamin B12

As written on the pack

Water, Soya Protein Concentrate 16%, Rapeseed Oil, Flavouring, Soya Protein Isolate 5%, Salt, Pea Protein Isolate 2%, Potato Starch, Vegetable Extracts (Radish, Carrot, Paprika), Maltodextrin, Smoke Flavouring, Iron, Vitamin B12.

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.

  • 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.

  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
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 11 bacon substitutes

From least to most processed, this one ranks 2nd. 100% of the bacon substitutes 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 11 bacon substitutes, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5060678710163, last edited 28 February 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.