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Is Birds Eye 2 Garlic and Herb Chicken Kievs ultra-processed?

2. 204g Chicken kievs Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Birds Eye 2 Garlic and Herb Chicken Kievs

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:

  • 49 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed chicken kievs

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 OPLAST 2 GARLIC and HERB CHICKEN KIEVS Kievs formed from marinated chopped chicken breast with a garlic and herb butter filling, coated in breadcrumbs, lightly fried, our ingredients, Chicken Breast 42%, Water, Flour (wheat, Maize), Rapeseed Oil, Butter 4%, Starch (Potato, Rice, Tapioca, Maize, wheat), Garlic, WHEAT Fibre, Salt, EGG White Powder, Natural Flavouring, Lecithin#, Concentrated Lemon Juice, Parsley, Yeast, Garlic Powder, Onion Powder, Dextrose, Black Pepper, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin, # Lecithin is used to bind our sauces together, It is a natural material found in many traditional food ingredients, For allergens see ingredients in CAPITAL LETTERS, Why does it say made from 100% chicken breast if it's 42% chicken breast? Made from 100% chicken breast means we use only chicken breast meat in our range, The other 58% relates to the other tasty ingredients such as the coating, filling, OUR 2222 10 COATE and TO PREPARE, Your chicken kiev cont ensure that it is COOK piping hot throughout, Tasty when OVEN BAK FREEZER, oven bake (FAN 18 GAS MA Pre-heat the oven, Place on a baking tro Let stand for 5 minut BE CAREFUL! Take c will be very hot, Although great care all bones), some ma Please ensure fo These instructions, Do NOT refreeze

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin

As written on the pack

0% CHICKEN OPLAST 2 GARLIC & HERB CHICKEN KIEVS Kievs formed from marinated chopped chicken breast with a garlic and herb butter filling, coated in breadcrumbs, lightly fried. OUR INGREDIENTS... Chicken Breast (42%), Water, Flour (WHEAT, Maize), Rapeseed Oil, Butter (4%) (MILK), Starch (Potato, Rice, Tapioca, Maize, WHEAT), Garlic, WHEAT Fibre, Salt, EGG White Powder, Natural Flavouring, Emulsifier (Lecithin#), Concentrated Lemon Juice, Parsley, Yeast, Garlic Powder, Onion Powder, Dextrose, Black Pepper, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin. # Lecithin is used to bind our sauces together. It is a natural material found in many traditional food ingredients. For allergens see ingredients in CAPITAL LETTERS. May contain MUSTARD. Why does it say made from 100% chicken breast if it's 42% chicken breast? Made from 100% chicken breast means we use only chicken breast meat in our range. The other 58% relates to the other tasty ingredients such as the coating and filling. OUR 2222 10 COATE & TO PREPARE... Your chicken kiev cont ensure that it is COOK piping hot throughout. Tasty when OVEN BAK FREEZER. OVEN BAKE: 200 FAN 18 GAS MA Pre-heat the oven. Place on a baking tro Let stand for 5 minut BE CAREFUL! Take c will be very hot. Although great care all bones, some ma Please ensure fo These instructions • Do NOT refreeze

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.

  • 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.
  • 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.

  • 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.
  • Fiber An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.
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.

  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 13 chicken kievs

From least to most processed, this one ranks 12th. 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 5000116125005, last edited 3 October 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.