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Is Banquet Chicken Pot Pie ultra-processed?

7 oz Sold in the United States

Pack of Banquet Chicken Pot Pie

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:

  • 55 ingredients
  • 9 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

filling (water), cooked chicken roll (chicken leg meat, chicken, water, salt, sodium tripolyphosphate), carrots, chicken (chicken, sodium tripolyphosphate, natural flavoring, citric acid), potatoes (potatoes, calcium chloride), modified corn starch, peas, less than 2% of the following (seasoning blend, salt), onion powder, sodium stearoyl-lactylate, sugar, dextrose, natural flavor (soy lecithin), paprika, oleoresin turmeric, lactic acid, rendered chicken fat, wheat flour, chicken stock, soybean oil, salt, hydrolyzed soy protein, flavors, autolyzed yeast extract, chicken fat, chicken, whey protein, beta carotene (color), crust (wheat flour), lard (lard, lard, bht (preservative)), water, dextrose, salt, caramel color

Additives: E150c Ammonia caramel , E270 Lactic acid , E321 Butylated hydroxytoluene , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E330 Citric acid , E452 Polyphosphates , E452vi Sodium tripolyphosphate , E481 Sodium stearoyl-2-lactylate

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E150c Ammonia caramel.

As written on the pack

filling: water, cooked chicken roll (chicken leg meat, ground chicken, water, salt, sodium tripolyphosphate), carrots, mechanically separated chicken (mechanically separated chicken, sodium tripolyphosphate, natural flavoring, citric acid), potatoes (potatoes, calcium chloride), modified corn starch, peas, less than 2% of the following: seasoning blend (salt, onion powder, sodium stearoyl-lactylate, sugar, dextrose, natural flavor (soy lecithin), paprika, oleoresin turmeric, lactic acid), rendered chicken fat, wheat flour, chicken stock, soybean oil, salt, hydrolyzed soy protein, flavors, autolyzed yeast extract, chicken fat, cooked chicken powder, whey protein concentrate, beta carotene (color), crust: wheat flour, lard (deodorized lard, hydrogenated lard, bht [preservative]), water, dextrose, salt, caramel color, contains: milk, soy, wheat

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.

  • E150c Ammonia caramel Ammonia caramel is a brown colour made by heating sugars with ammonia compounds.
  • E322 Lecithins Lecithins are fatty substances extracted mostly from soybeans, sunflower seeds or eggs, used as emulsifiers to keep fat and water mixed, for example in chocolate.
  • E452 Polyphosphates Emulsifiers are substances which make it possible to form or maintain a homogenous mixture of two or more immiscible phases such as oil and water in a foodstuff.
  • E481 Sodium stearoyl-2-lactylate Emulsifiers are substances which make it possible to form or maintain a homogenous mixture of two or more immiscible phases such as oil and water in a foodstuff.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
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  • Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.

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.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Milk proteins Milk proteins are proteins separated from milk, such as caseinates and whey protein concentrates, added to adjust texture or raise protein content.
  • Lard An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.
5 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.

  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
  • 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 oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0031000101015, last edited 25 September 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.