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Is YO! crispy salmon dragon rolls ultra-processed?

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Pack of YO! crispy salmon dragon rolls

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:

  • 46 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed sushis

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

Cooked rice (water, rice, sugar, spirit vinegar, rice vinegar, salt, rapeseed oil, fructose-glucose syrup, cane molasses), cucumber 15%, salmon 13% (Salmo salar), kabayaki sauce sachet (water, glucose syrup, sugar, soy sauce (water, soya beans, wheat, salt, alcohol), mirin, cornflour, salt), crispy onion pot (onions, palm oil, wheat flour, salt), mayonnaise (rapeseed oil, water, free range egg, pasteurised free range egg yolk, sugar, salt, spirit vinegar, lemon juice from concentrate, potassium sorbate, calcium disodium EDTA, paprika extract), white sesame seeds, black sesame, seaweed

Additives: E160c Paprika extract , E202 Potassium sorbate , E385 Calcium disodium ethylenediaminetetraacetate

As written on the pack

Cooked rice (water, rice, sugar, spirit vinegar, rice vinegar, salt, rapeseed oil, fructose-glucose syrup, cane molasses), cucumber (15%), salmon (13%) (Salmo salar) (fish), kabayaki sauce sachet (water, glucose syrup, sugar, soy sauce (water, soya beans, wheat, salt, alcohol), mirin, cornflour, salt), crispy onion pot (onions, palm oil, wheat flour, salt), mayonnaise (rapeseed oil, water, pasteurised free range egg, pasteurised free range egg yolk, sugar, salt, spirit vinegar, lemon juice from concentrate, preservative (potassium sorbate), antioxidant (calcium disodium EDTA), colour (paprika extract)), white sesame seeds, black sesame seeds, seaweed. allergy advice:

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.

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.
  • Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
5 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.

  • E202 Potassium sorbate Preservatives are substances which prolong the shelf-life of foods by protecting them against deterioration caused by micro-organisms and/or which protect against growth of pathogenic micro-organisms.
  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Sauce A prepared sauce used as an ingredient.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 24 sushis

From least to most processed, this one ranks 14th. 88% of the sushis 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 24 sushis, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5035272934239, last edited 30 September 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.