Is Baxters Super Good Mecican Chicken And Lime ultra-processed?

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Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Modified starch

29 ingredients
No additives
Nutri-Score A

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Tomatoes, Water, Black-eyed Beans 12%, Sweet Potato, Red Peppers, Onions, Chicken 3%, Cornflour, Ginger, Garlic Purée, Coriander Spices, Salt (processing marker), Chipotle Peppers, Modified Maize Starch (ultra-processing marker), Roast Chicken Stock Paste (Water, Roast Chicken Stock, Yeast Extract, Yeast Extract, Salt (processing marker), Sugar (processing marker)), Tomal Purée, Cornflour, Vegetable Juice, Onion, Carrot, Leek, Lime Yeast Extract, Sugar (processing marker)

As written on the pack

Tomatoes, Water, Black-eyed Beans (12%), Sweet Potato, Red Peppers, Onions, Chicken (3%), Cornflour, Ginger Purée, Garlic Purée, Coriander Spices, Salt, Chipotle Peppers, Modified Maize Starch, Roast Chicken Stock Paste (Water, Roast Chicken Stock, Yeast Extract [Yeast Extract, Salt, Sugar), Tomal Purée, Cornflour, Vegetable Juice Concentrates [Onion, Carrot, Leek), Lime Yeast Extract, Sugar.

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.

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.

3 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.

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.

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About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5012427676909, 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.