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Is Birds Eye Voila! Alfredo Chicken ultra-processed?

21 oz Pasta dishes Sold in the United States

Pack of Birds Eye Voila! Alfredo Chicken

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:

  • 84 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score B

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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

Vegetable (carrots, broccoli, peas), alfredo sauce (water, light cream blend (cream, skim milk, nonfat milk powder), parmesan cheese, butter (butter (cream, salt), flavor), cheese flavor (parmesan cheese (milk, cultures, salt, enzymes), water, salt, disodium phosphate, sodium citrate), contains 2% and less of (nonfat milk), modified food starch, salt, garlic powder, seasoning (wheat flour, yeast extract, spices, sugar, sodium caseinate, hydrolyzed corn gluten, xanthan gum, dextrose), spices, xanthan gum), cooked enriched macaroni product (water, durum wheat semolina (semolina, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid)), cooked diced chicken breast meat with rib meat (chicken breast meat with rib meat, water, isolated soy protein, seasoning (sugar, garlic, romano cheese, cow's milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), dehydrated onion, salt, sodium phosphates, natural flavor, coated with (corn flour), enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), salt, corn starch, spices, paprika, maltodextrin, caramel color, garlic powder, paprika)

Additives: E150c Ammonia caramel , E331 Sodium citrates , E339ii Disodium phosphate , E415 Xanthan gum

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

As written on the pack

Vegetable (carrots, broccoli, peas), alfredo sauce (water, light cream blend (cream, skim milk, nonfat milk powder), parmesan cheese ([pasteurized part skim milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes]), butter concentrate [butter (cream, salt), flavor], cheese flavor (parmesan cheese [pasteurized milk, cultures, salt, enzymes], water, salt, disodium phosphate, sodium citrate). contains 2% or less of: nonfat milk, modified food starch, salt, garlic powder, seasoning (wheat flour, yeast extract, spices, sugar, sodium caseinate, hydrolyzed corn gluten, xanthan gum, dextrose), spices, xanthan gum), cooked enriched macaroni product (water, enriched durum wheat semolina (semolina, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid)), cooked diced chicken breast meat with rib meat (chicken breast meat with rib meat, water, isolated soy protein, seasoning [sugar, garlic, romano cheese [part skim cow's milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes], dehydrated onion], salt, sodium phosphates, natural flavor, coated with: corn flour, enriched wheat flour [wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid], salt, corn starch, spices, paprika, maltodextrin, caramel color, garlic powder, extractives of paprika).

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.
  • E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • 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.
  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
7 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.

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • 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.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.
  • Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 544 pasta dishes

From least to most processed, this one ranks 502nd. 72% of the pasta dishes 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 544 pasta dishes, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0014500007179, last edited 11 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 B (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.