Is Waitrose Beef Steak Burger Patty ultra-processed?
It's processed, but not ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Whole foods combined with:
- 10 ingredients
- 2 additives
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Dry aged British beef 70%, British beef 25%, tapioca starch (processing marker), water, rock salt (processing marker), black pepper, preservative (processing marker) (sodium sulphite), antioxidant (sodium ascorbate)
Additives: E221 Sodium sulphite , E301 Sodium ascorbate
As written on the pack
Dry aged British beef (70%), British beef (25%), tapioca starch, water, rock salt, black pepper, preservative (sodium sulphite), antioxidant (sodium ascorbate)
What makes it processed
Culinary ingredients
Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.
Preservation and traditional processing
Keep food safe or ferment it, like preservatives and cultures. A sign of processing, not ultra-processing.
- Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
Category rules
Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.
- Sandwiches Products in the category "Sandwiches" are at least group 3.
Among 17 beef hamburgers
From least to most processed, this one ranks 5th. 65% of the beef hamburgers here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000169549155, last edited 22 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.
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.