Chicken Katsu Dragon Rolls with Curry Mayonnaise
Processing
4
Ultra-processed
Group 4 of 4 on the NOVA scale
Additives listed
8
0 we grade moderate or higher
7 of them not yet assessed here
Salt per 100g
1.67g
High
UK FSA front of pack threshold
Three separate readings, kept apart on purpose. This is not a score, and none of it says this product is harmful.
Additives (8)
This label lists 2 acidity regulators, 2 colours, 1 antioxidant, 1 preservative, 1 raising agent and 1 thickener or gelling agent.
E202
Potassium sorbate
Preservative
What it is. The potassium salt of sorbic acid, which stops mould and yeast growth.
Why it is used. Used in cheese, baked goods, dried fruit, wine and dressings.
What the evidence says. Widely used and long regarded as one of the gentler preservatives. EFSA's 2015 re-evaluation lowered the acceptable daily intake and noted gaps in the genotoxicity data, asking for more work, while finding no evidence of harm at the levels actually used.
Permitted with maximum levels. EFSA has asked for further data rather than restricted it.
Assessed against EFSA. Full entry for E202
Also on the label, not assessed here yet
- E1404 Oxidised starch thickener
- E160B Annatto, bixin, norbixin colour
- E160C Paprika extract, capsanthin colour
- E339 Sodium phosphates acidity regulator
- E385 Calcium disodium EDTA antioxidant
- E451 Triphosphates acidity regulator
- E500 Sodium carbonates raising agent
Names and jobs come from the register of additives permitted in Great Britain, which we have not finished transcribing: a code shown without a name is a gap in our coverage, not a finding that it is unapproved. Naming one is not grading it either. Full detail appears only where we have an assessment against a named authority, so all of this describes our coverage rather than these additives. Most are common and low concern.
Ingredients
Cooked rice (water, rice, sugar, spirit vinegar, rice vinegar, salt, rapeseed oil, fructose-glucose syrup, cane molasses), curry mayonnaise (14%) (Singapore style sauce (sugar, water, soy sauce (water, soya beans, wheat, salt, alcohol), apple juice concentrate, gochujang paste (corn syrup, wheat flour, water, salt, red pepper powder, defatted soya bean powder, wheat, grain alcohol, garlic, rice, onion, koji (barley)), salt, rapeseed oil, sesame seed oil, spirit vinegar, onion purée, modified maize starch, vegetable stock powder (sea salt, yeast extract, rice flour, dried onion, dried carrot, parsley, turmeric), curry powder (coriander, turmeric, salt, garlic, ginger, pimento, fenugreek, cumin, black pepper, bay, paprika, cayenne), tomato purée, yeast extract, garlic powder, lime juice concentrate, garlic purée, chilli flakes, cayenne pepper), mayonnaise (rapeseed oil, water, pasteurised free range egg and egg yolk, sugar, salt, spirit vinegar, lemon juice from concentrate, preservative (potassium sorbate), antioxidant (calcium disodium EDTA), colour (paprika extract)), lemon juice), breaded cooked chicken breast (13%) (chicken breast, wheat flour, water, modified starch (oxidised starch, starch acetate), palm oil, salt, dextrose, raising agents (sodium phosphates, sodium bicarbonate), stabiliser (sodium triphosphate), yeast, soya flour), pickled carrot (10%) (carrot, rice vinegar, sugar, salt), soy sauce sachet (water, soya beans, wheat, salt, alcohol), coloured orange sesame seeds (sesame seeds, water, colour (norbixin)), black sesame seeds, seaweed. ALLERGY ADVICE:
As printed on the pack, in the producer's own order: ingredients are listed by weight, so what comes first is most of what is in it. E numbers link to their assessment where we have one.