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Is Yo! Veggie Sushi ultra-processed?

Sushis Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Yo! Veggie Sushi

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:

  • 67 ingredients
  • 8 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), inari fried tofu wraps 13% (soya beans, water, sugar, rice bran oil, sweetener (maltitol), wheat, salt, acidity regulators (sodium acetate, acetic acid, malic acid), corn starch, colour (plain caramel)), cucumber 6%, yellow pepper 3%, soy sauce sachet (water, soya beans, wheat, salt, alcohol), carrot (carrot, rice vinegar, sugar, salt), red cabbage (red cabbage, rice vinegar, sugar, salt), 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)), red pepper, seaweed, chives, rocket, white sesame seeds, black sesame

Additives: E150a Plain caramel , E260 Acetic acid , E262 Sodium acetates , E262i Sodium acetate , E296 Malic acid , E300 Ascorbic acid , E330 Citric acid , E965 Maltitol

As written on the pack

Cooked rice (water, rice, sugar, spirit vinegar, rice vinegar, salt, rapeseed oil, fructose-glucose syrup, cane molasses), inari fried tofu wraps (13%) (soya beans, water, sugar, rice bran oil, sweetener (maltitol), wheat, salt, acidity regulators (sodium acetate, acetic acid, malic acid), corn starch, colour (plain caramel)), cucumber (6%), yellow pepper (3%), soy sauce sachet (water, soya beans, wheat, salt, alcohol), pickled carrot (carrot, rice vinegar, sugar, salt), pickled red cabbage (red cabbage, rice vinegar, sugar, salt), 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)), red pepper, seaweed, chives, rocket, white sesame seeds, black sesame seeds.

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.

  • E150a Plain caramel Plain caramel is a brown colour made by heating sugars.
  • E965 Maltitol Maltitol is a sugar alcohol made from starch, used as a sweetener in "no added sugar" sweets and chocolate.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • Sweetener Sweeteners give sweetness with few or no calories, many at hundreds of times the strength of sugar.

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.
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.

  • 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 24 sushis

From least to most processed, this one ranks 19th. 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 5035272934147, 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.
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.