Is Applegate Naturals Chicken Breast Tenders Breaded Chicken Breast Fillets ultra-processed?

16 oz Chicken breasts Sold in the United States

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

Salt
Starch
Sugar

19 ingredients
4 additives
Nutri-Score B

Less processed chicken breasts

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

chicken breast tenders, rice flour, water, tapioca starch (processing marker), contains less than 2% of the following (corn starch (processing marker)), sea salt (processing marker), cane sugar (processing marker), leavening (cream of tartar, sodium bicarbonate), raisin juice concentrate, garlic, onion, paprika, turmeric, celery seed, black pepper, breading set in expeller pressed canola oil

Additives: E336 Potassium tartrates , E336i Monopotassium tartrate , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

chicken breast tenders, rice flour, water, tapioca starch, contains less than 2% of the following: corn starch, sea salt, cane sugar, leavening (cream of tartar, sodium bicarbonate), raisin juice concentrate, garlic powder, onion powder, extractives of paprika and turmeric, celery seed, black pepper. breading set in expeller pressed canola oil.

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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 83 chicken breasts

From least to most processed, this one ranks 29th. 65% of the chicken breasts 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 83 chicken breasts, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0025317225908, last edited 29 May 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 B (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.