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Is Waitrose PlantLiving: 4 crunchy veg crispbakes ultra-processed?

Vegetarian patties Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Waitrose PlantLiving: 4 crunchy veg crispbakes

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:

  • 35 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score B

Less processed vegetarian patties

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

Vegetables 52% (potato, onion, carrot, broccoli, peas, edamame beans, sweetcorn, cauliflower, red pepper, French beans), wheat flour, vegetable oil (sunflower oil, rapeseed oil), potato starch, water, potato, rice starch, salt, glucose, yeast, sugar, black pepper, garlic, onion, nutmeg, furmeric, lovage, parsnip, carrot powder, porcini mushroom, parsley, clove, bay leaf

As written on the pack

Vegetables (52%) (potato, onion, carrot, broccoli, peas, edamame beans (soya), sweetcorn, cauliflower, red pepper, French beans), wheat flour, vegetable oil (sunflower oil, rapeseed oil), potato starch, water, dried potato, rice starch, salt, glucose, yeast, sugar, black pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, nutmeg, furmeric, lovage, parsnip, carrot powder, porcini mushroom powder, parsley, clove powder, bay leaf

What makes it ultra-processed

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.

  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
4 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.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 59 vegetarian patties

From least to most processed, this one ranks 16th. 78% of the vegetarian patties 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 59 vegetarian patties, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000169614822, last edited 27 March 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.