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Is Yo! Salmon & Cali Top Hits ultra-processed?

Sushis Sold in the United Kingdom

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:

  • 73 ingredients
  • 7 additives

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), salmon 15% (Salmo salar), soy sauce sachet (water, soya beans, wheat, salt, alcohol), seafood stick 5%, water, surimi (Alaska pollock (Theragra chalcogramma), hake (Merluccius productus), sugar), free range egg white, rapeseed oil, potato starch, salt, sugar, modified starch, soya protein, natural flavouring, colorant (lycopene), avocado 3%, cucumber 2%, pickled ginger sachet (ginger, tapioca starch, water, sugar cane vinegar, salt, alcohol), wasabi sachet (horseradish, wasabi, tapioca starch, salt, mustard oil, acidity regulator (citric acid), antioxidant (ascorbic acid)), white sesame seeds, mayonnaise (rapeseed oil, water, free range egg, egg yolk, sugar, spirit vinegar, salt, lemon juice from concentrate, preservative (potassium sorbate), antioxidant (calcium disodium EDTA), colour (paprika extract)), black sesame, seaweed

Additives: E14XX Modified Starch , E160c Paprika extract , E160d Lycopene , E202 Potassium sorbate , E300 Ascorbic acid , E330 Citric acid , 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), salmon (15%) (Salmo salar) (fish), soy sauce sachet (water, soya beans, wheat, salt, alcohol), seafood stick (5%) (water, surimi (Alaska pollock (Theragra chalcogramma) (fish) and/or hake (Merluccius productus) (fish), sugar), reconstituted pasteurised free range egg white powder, rapeseed oil, potato starch, salt, sugar, modified starch, soya protein, natural flavouring, colorant (lycopene)), avocado (3%), cucumber (2%), pickled ginger sachet (ginger, tapioca starch, water, sugar cane vinegar, salt, alcohol), wasabi sachet (horseradish, wasabi, tapioca starch, salt, mustard oil, acidity regulator (citric acid), antioxidant (ascorbic acid)). white sesame seeds, mayonnaise (rapeseed oil, water, pasteurised free range egg and egg yolk, sugar, spirit vinegar, salt, lemon juice from concentrate, preservative (potassium sorbate), antioxidant (calcium disodium EDTA), colour (paprika extract)), black sesame seeds, seaweed.

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.

  • E14xx Modified Starch Modified starches (E1400 to E1452) are starches treated physically, with enzymes or chemically so that they thicken and hold up to heating, freezing or acidity better than ordinary starch.
  • E160c Paprika extract Paprika extract is a red-orange colour extracted from paprika peppers.
  • E160d Lycopene 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.
  • 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.
  • Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.

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.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
8 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.
  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
  • 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.
  • Sauce A prepared sauce used as an ingredient.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 24 sushis

From least to most processed, this one ranks 22nd. 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 5035272934482, 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.
  • 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.