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Is Young's Scampi ultra-processed?

220 g Crustaceans Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Young's Scampi

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:

  • 27 ingredients
  • 5 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed crustaceans

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

Scampi 37%, Wheat Flour (_Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Rapeseed Oil, Water, Potato Starch, Wheat Starch, Rice Flour, Wheat Gluten, Modified Maize Starch, Yeast, Salt, Oat Fibre, Raising Agents (Diphosphates, Sodium Bicarbonate), Stabilisers (Sodium Carbonate, Sodium Bicarbonate, Citric Acid), Dextrose, Cornflour, White Pepper

Additives: E330 Citric acid , E450 Diphosphates , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500i Sodium carbonate , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

Scampi (37%) (Crustacean), Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Rapeseed Oil, Water, Potato Starch, Wheat Starch, Rice Flour, Wheat Gluten, Modified Maize Starch, Yeast, Salt, Oat_ Fibre, Raising Agents (Diphosphates, Sodium Bicarbonate), Stabilisers (Sodium Carbonate, Sodium Bicarbonate, Citric Acid), Dextrose, Cornflour, White Pepper.

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.

  • E450 Diphosphates Diphosphates are phosphate salts used as raising agents in baking powder, and to hold water in processed meats and cheese.
  • 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.
  • Gluten Wheat gluten, sold as "vital wheat gluten", is the protein washed out of wheat flour.
  • Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
2 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.

  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 38 crustaceans

From least to most processed, this one ranks 37th. 39% of the crustaceans 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 38 crustaceans, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000205040875, 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.
  • 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.