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Is Yo! teriyaki chicken katsu poke ultra-processed?

Prepared salads Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Yo! teriyaki chicken katsu poke

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:

  • 81 ingredients
  • 8 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

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Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Cooked rice (water, rice, sugar, spirit vinegar, rice vinegar, salt, rapeseed oil, fructose-glucose syrup, cane molasses), cooked breaded chicken breast 19% (chicken breast, wheat flour, water, modified corn starch, palm oil, modified tapioca starch, salt, dextrose, stabiliser (sodium tripolyphosphate), raising agents (sodium diphosphate, sodium bicarbonate), yeast, soya flour), edamame beans 10%, teriyaki mayo coleslaw 10%, carrot, red cabbage, savoy cabbage, sweetheart cabbage, mayonnaise (rapeseed oil, water, free range egg, pasteurised free range egg yolk, spirit vinegar, sugar, salt, lemon juice from concentrate, antioxidant (calcium disodium EDTA), flavouring, colour (paprika extract)), teriyaki sauce (water, sugar, soya beans, wheat, salt, modified maize starch, onion, spirit vinegar, apple juice, garlic, lime juice concentrate, alcohol), teriyaki miso sauce pot (water, sugar, soya beans, salt, wheat, modified maize starch, rice, spirit vinegar, onion, apple juice, lemon juice, chilli purée, alcohol, cornflour, lime juice concentrate, garlic, ginger, sesame seed oil, garlic purée, cayenne pepper), white sesame seeds allergy advice

Additives: E160c Paprika extract , E385 Calcium disodium ethylenediaminetetraacetate , E450 Diphosphates , E450iii Tetrasodium diphosphate , E452 Polyphosphates , E452vi Sodium tripolyphosphate , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

Cooked rice (water, rice, sugar, spirit vinegar, rice vinegar, salt, rapeseed oil, fructose-glucose syrup, cane molasses), cooked breaded chicken breast (19%) (chicken breast, wheat flour, water, modified corn starch, palm oil, modified tapioca starch, salt, dextrose, stabiliser (sodium tripolyphosphate), raising agents (sodium diphosphate, sodium bicarbonate), yeast, soya flour), edamame beans (10%) (soya), teriyaki mayo coleslaw (10%) (carrot, red cabbage, savoy cabbage, sweetheart cabbage, mayonnaise (rapeseed oil, water, pasteurised free range egg, pasteurised free range egg yolk, spirit vinegar, sugar, salt, lemon juice from concentrate, antioxidant (calcium disodium EDTA), flavouring, colour (paprika extract)), teriyaki sauce (water, sugar, soya beans, wheat, salt, modified maize starch, onion purée, spirit vinegar, apple juice concentrate, garlic powder, lime juice concentrate, alcohol)), teriyaki miso sauce pot (water, sugar, soya beans, salt, wheat, modified maize starch, rice, spirit vinegar, onion purée, apple juice concentrate, lemon juice, chilli purée, alcohol, cornflour, lime juice concentrate, garlic powder, ginger purée, sesame seed oil, garlic purée, cayenne pepper), white sesame seeds 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.

  • E160c Paprika extract Paprika extract is a red-orange colour extracted from paprika peppers.
  • E450 Diphosphates Diphosphates are phosphate salts used as raising agents in baking powder, and to hold water in processed meats and cheese.
  • E452 Polyphosphates Emulsifiers are substances which make it possible to form or maintain a homogenous mixture of two or more immiscible phases such as oil and water in a foodstuff.
  • 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.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • 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.
6 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.

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
  • 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 224 prepared salads

From least to most processed, this one ranks 221st. 60% of the prepared 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 224 prepared salads, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5035272937193, last edited 6 May 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.