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Is Annabel Karmel Mild Chicken Tikka ultra-processed?

200 g Meals with chicken Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Annabel Karmel Mild Chicken Tikka

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

  • 59 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score A

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Cooked basmati rice 47% (water, basmati rice), chicken breast 14% (chicken breast, rice starch, salt), tomato, water, onion, apple puree, tomato paste, rapeseed oil, creamed coconut, ginger, mango chutney (sugar, mango, salt, ginger, acidity regulator (acetic acid), garlic, cayenne pepper), chicken stock (chicken, potato flake, yeast extract, salt), cornflour, yeast extract, vegetable stock (water, yeast extract, salt, onion, carrot juice, potato, sunflower oil, sugar, leek, lemon juice concentrate, garlic), coriander, lemon juice concentrate, desiccated coconut, turmeric, cumin, garlic puree, black pepper, paprika, cassia, star anise, ground ginger, cardamom, pimento, bay leaf, clove, nutmeg

Additives: E260 Acetic acid

As written on the pack

Cooked basmati rice (47%) (water, basmati rice), chicken breast (14%) (chicken breast, rice starch, salt), tomato, water, onion, apple puree, tomato paste, rapeseed oil, creamed coconut, ginger puree, mango chutney (sugar, mango, salt, ginger, acidity regulator (acetic acid), garlic, cayenne pepper), chicken stock (chicken, rehydrated potato flake, yeast extract, salt), cornflour, yeast extract, vegetable stock (water, yeast extract, salt, onion powder, carrot juice concentrate, dehydrated potato, sunflower oil, sugar, leek powder, lemon juice concentrate, garlic powder), ground coriander, lemon juice concentrate, desiccated coconut, ground turmeric, ground cumin, garlic puree, ground black pepper, ground paprika, ground cassia, ground star anise, ground ginger, ground cardamom, ground pimento, ground bay leaf, ground clove, ground nutmeg.

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable fat Vegetable fats are oils that are solid at room temperature, such as palm or coconut fat.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

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

How the NOVA groups work

Among 213 meals with chicken

From least to most processed, this one ranks 44th. 79% of the meals with chicken 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 213 meals with chicken, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5060232660118, 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 A (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.