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Is Banihana Frozen Meal Hibachi chicken rice, fried rice with white meat chicken, grilled onions, carrots and egg ultra-processed?

Rice dishes Sold in the United States

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:

  • 51 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score B

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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

jasmine rice (water, rice), fully cooked diced chicken breast strips with rib meat (chicken breast with rib meat, water, rice starch, salt, natural flavor, black pepper), sauce (reduced sodium soy sauce (water, wheat, soybeans, salt, alcohol, vinegar, lactic acid), water, garlic, butter (cream, salt), roasted sesame oil, cornstarch, sesame seeds, natural flavors, natural egg flavor with other natural flavors (safflower oil, egg yolk, natural flavors), flavor enhancer (milk, nonfat dry milk, salt, natural flavor), spices, maltodextrin, flavor), carrots, onions, scrambled eggs (egg whites, whole eggs, corn starch, xanthan gum, annatto (color)), green onions, sesame seeds

Additives: E160b Annatto , E270 Lactic acid , E415 Xanthan gum

As written on the pack

Cooked jasmine rice (water, rice), fully cooked diced chicken breast strips with rib meat (chicken breast with rib meat, water, rice starch, salt, natural flavor, black pepper), sauce (reduced sodium soy sauce [water, wheat, soybeans, salt, alcohol, vinegar, lactic acid], water, roasted garlic, butter [cream, salt], roasted sesame oil, cornstarch, sesame seeds, natural flavors, natural egg flavor with other natural flavors [safflower oil, egg yolk solids, natural flavors], flavor enhancer [milk solids, nonfat dry milk, salt, natural flavor], spices, maltodextrin, flavor), carrots, onions, scrambled eggs (egg whites, whole eggs, corn starch, xanthan gum, annatto [color]), green onions, sesame seeds.

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.

  • E160b Annatto Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
  • E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • Flavour enhancer Flavour enhancers such as monosodium glutamate (E621) strengthen savoury taste without adding a flavour of their own.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.

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.

  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
7 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.

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
  • Sauce A prepared sauce used as an ingredient.
  • Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 192 rice dishes

From least to most processed, this one ranks 183rd. 71% of the rice dishes 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 192 rice dishes, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0021000070701, last edited 26 July 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
  • 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.