Is Birchwood Chicken kievs ultra-processed?

260g Chicken kievs Sold in the United Kingdom

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

Butter
Salt

20 ingredients
No additives
Nutri-Score D

Less processed breaded products

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

british chicken breast 53%, wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, tron, niacin, thiamin), garlic 16%, parsley butter 16% (butter (processing marker), garlic purée 8%, salt (processing marker), garlic, parsley, concentrated lemon juice, white pepper), water, rapeseed oil, salt (processing marker), yeast

As written on the pack

53% british chicken breast, wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, tron, niacin, thiamin), 16% garlic and parsley butter (butter (milk), 8% garlic purée, salt, garlic, parsley, concentrated lemon juice, ground white pepper), water, rapeseed oil, salt, yeast,

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 13 chicken kievs

From least to most processed, this one ranks 2nd. 77% of the chicken kievs 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 13 chicken kievs, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4056489101376, 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 D (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.