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Is Tulip Snitzel ultra-processed?

8x 140 g Breaded meat cutlets Sold in Norway

Pack of Tulip Snitzel

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:

  • 18 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed breaded meat cutlets

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

Griskött 75%, panering (ströbröd (vetemjöl, salt, jäst, kryddor), modifierad vetestärkelse, vetemjöl, vatten, majsmjöl, salt, kryddor), vatten, salt med tillsatt jod, risstärkelse, dextros, kryddor

As written on the pack

Griskött (75%), panering (ströbröd (vetemjöl, salt, jäst, kryddor), modifierad vetestärkelse, vetemjöl, vatten, majsmjöl, salt, kryddor), vatten, salt med tillsatt jod, risstärkelse, dextros, kryddor.

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.

  • Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.

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.
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 breaded meat cutlets

From least to most processed, this one ranks 8th. 82% of the breaded meat cutlets 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 breaded meat cutlets, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5707196227147, last edited 21 March 2025), 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.