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Is Vivera Plant-Based Salmon Fillet ultra-processed?

200g Fatty fishes Sold in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands

Pack of Vivera Plant-Based Salmon Fillet

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:

  • 25 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score B

Less processed fatty fishes

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

vegetable protein 71% (water, wheat protein 14%), rapeseed oil, wheat flour, pea protein, vinegar, wheat fibres, natural flavourings, flaxseed oil, thickener (methylcellulose), stabiliser (sodiumalginate), potato fibres, low-sodium mineral sea salt (salt, chloride salt of potassium), colour (beetroot red), salt, preservative (sodium diacetate), iron, vitamin B12

Additives: E162 Beetroot red , E262 Sodium acetates , E262ii Sodium diacetate , E461 Methyl cellulose

As written on the pack

Hydrated vegetable protein 71% (water, wheat protein 14%), rapeseed oil, wheat flour, pea protein, vinegar, wheat fibres, natural flavourings, flaxseed oil, thickener (methylcellulose), stabiliser (sodiumalginate), potato fibres, low-sodium mineral sea salt (salt, chloride salt of potassium), colour (beetroot red), salt, preservative (sodium diacetate), 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.

  • E162 Beetroot red 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.
  • E461 Methyl cellulose Emulsifiers are substances which make it possible to form or maintain a homogenous mixture of two or more immiscible phases such as oil and water in a foodstuff.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.

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.

  • 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.
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.

  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 479 fatty fishes

From least to most processed, this one ranks 474th. 21% of the fatty fishes 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 479 fatty fishes, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 8718300883996, last edited 29 April 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.