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Is Braemoor Red Hen MONE JOR Red Hen CRISPY RICE COATED 2 CHICKEN QUAR ultra-processed?

Chickens Sold in the United States

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:

  • 29 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score A

Less processed chickens

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 Breast Meat 48%, Water, Rice Flakes 19% (Rice Flour, Barley Malt Extract, Emulsifier (Glycerol Monostearate), Rice Bran), Rapeseed Oil, Wheat Flour, Pea Starch, Wheat Starch, Salt, Wheat Gluten, Pea Fibre, Maize Flour, Dextrose, Celery, Mustard Powder (Mustard (Water, White Mustard, Spirit Vinegar, Salt, Sugar), Maltodextrin), Raising Agents (Sodium Carbonates), Flavouring Allergy Advice

Additives: E500 Sodium carbonates

As written on the pack

48% Chicken Breast Meat, Water, 19% Rice Flakes (Rice Flour, Barley Malt Extract, Emulsifier: Glycerol Monostearate, Rice Bran Extract), Rapeseed Oil, Wheat Flour, Pea Starch, Wheat Starch, Salt, Wheat Gluten, Pea Fibre, Maize Flour, Dextrose, Celery, Mustard Powder (Mustard [Water, White Mustard, Spirit Vinegar, Salt, Sugar], Maltodextrin), Raising Agents: Sodium Carbonates: Flavouring Allergy Advice

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.

  • Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.

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.
  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
  • Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
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.

  • 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 356 chickens

From least to most processed, this one ranks 321st. 74% of the chickens 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 356 chickens, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4335619141018, last edited 15 July 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
  • 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.