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Is Boots Chicken Caesar Salad ultra-processed?

168g Salads with meat Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Boots Chicken Caesar Salad

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

  • 32 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score A

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Lettuce 42%, chicken 29% (chicken breast 28.42%, salt, cornflour, water, rapeseed oil, medium fat hard cheese, lemon juice, cornflour, pasteurised egg yolk (egg yolk, salt), spirit vinegar, sugar, black pepper, mustard seed, garlic puree, salt, white wine vinegar), croutons (wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamine), olive oil, salt, sea salt, yeast), Parmigiano Reggiano cheese

As written on the pack

Lettuce (42%), Cooked chicken (29%) (chicken breast (98%), salt, cornflour) (water, rapeseed oil, medium fat hard cheese (milk) lemon juice, cornflour, pasteurised egg yolk (egg yolk, salt), spirit vinegar, sugar, black pepper, mustard seed, garlic puree, salt, white wine vinegar) lightly salted croutons (wheat flour (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamine) olive oil, salt, sea salt, yeast) Parmigiano Reggiano cheese (milk)

What makes it processed

Processed ingredients

Processed foods in their own right, such as cheese or milk powder.

  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

Culinary ingredients

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.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 27 salads with meat

From least to most processed, this one ranks 2nd. 67% of the salads with meat 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 27 salads with meat, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5045095463632, 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.