Breaded meat cutlets, from least to most processed

We track 11 breaded meat cutlets, 82% of them ultra-processed. The least processed is Breaded Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts.

What makes breaded meat cutlets ultra-processed

The signs of ultra-processing found most often, and the share of breaded meat cutlets that contain each:

Processed food (2)

  1. 1 Breaded Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts Bell & Evans NOVA group 3
  2. 2 Breaded Chicken Breast Tenders Perdue Farms Incorporated NOVA group 3

Ultra-processed food (9)

  1. 3 Classic chickenSteaks Marks & Spencers · 500 g NOVA group 4
  2. 4 Classic Breaded Chicken Breast Mini Fillets Sainsbury's · 305 g NOVA group 4
  3. 5 Chicken Breast Fillet made without wheat Marks & Spencer · 270 g NOVA group 4
  4. 6 Svenska Schnitzlar Scan · 6 x 100 g NOVA group 4
  5. 7 Breaded Chicken Tenderloin Breasts Trader Joe's NOVA group 4
  6. 8 Snitzel Tulip · 8x 140 g NOVA group 4
  7. 9 Breaded Chicken Strips Tesco · 400 g NOVA group 4
  8. 10 Kycklingschnitzel Guldfågeln · 370 g NOVA group 4
  9. 11 Ostschnitzel Findus · 390 g NOVA group 4

Within each group, products with fewer signs of ultra-processing, additives and ingredients come first. This ordering is ours, for comparison; it is not part of NOVA.