Is Wild Planet Wild Tuna & Red Bean Salad ultra-processed?

5.6 oz Tuna salads Sold in the United States

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

Salt

11 ingredients
No additives
Nutri-Score B

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

skipjack tuna (katsuwonus pelamis), red beans, sweetcorn sunflower oil, red pepper, carrot, white wine vinegar, water, salt (processing marker), natural chili flavor, black pepper

As written on the pack

SKIPJACK TUNA (KATSUWONUS PELAMIS), *RED BEANS, *SWEETCORN SUNFLOWER OIL, *RED PEPPER, *CARROT, *WHITE WINE VINEGAR, WATER, SALT, NATURAL CHILI FLAVOR, GROUND BLACK PEPPER. *ORGANIC

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 14 tuna salads

From least to most processed, this one ranks 2nd. 71% of the tuna salads 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 14 tuna salads, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0829696004501, last edited 26 August 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.