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Is Birds Eye Ultimate Breaded Chicken Fillet Burgers ultra-processed?

227 g Breaded chicken Sold in the United Kingdom and Ireland

Pack of Birds Eye Ultimate Breaded Chicken Fillet Burgers

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:

  • 24 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score A

Less processed breaded chicken

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

our ingredients, Chicken Breast 60%, WHEAT Flour, Water, Rapeseed Oil, Starch (wheat, Maize), Dextrose, Salt, WHEAT Gluten, Spices, Disodium Diphosphate, Sodium Carbonates, Natural Flavouring, Herbs, Spice, Herb Extracts, Yeast, Mushroom Extract, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin

Additives: E450 Diphosphates , E450i Disodium diphosphate , E500 Sodium carbonates

As written on the pack

our ingredients... Chicken Breast (60%), WHEAT Flour, Water, Rapeseed Oil, Starch (WHEAT, Maize), Dextrose, Salt, WHEAT Gluten, Spices, Raising Agents (Disodium Diphosphate, Sodium Carbonates), Natural Flavouring, Dried Herbs, Spice & Herb Extracts, Yeast, Mushroom Extract, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin.

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.

  • E450 Diphosphates Diphosphates are phosphate salts used as raising agents in baking powder, and to hold water in processed meats and cheese.
  • 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.
  • Gluten Wheat gluten, sold as "vital wheat gluten", is the protein washed out of wheat flour.
2 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 115 breaded chicken

From least to most processed, this one ranks 102nd. 83% of the breaded chicken 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 115 breaded chicken, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000116125401, last edited 9 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 A (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.