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Is Campbell's Chunky Cheesy Baked Potato ultra-processed?

533 g Meals with chicken Sold in the United States, Germany and Thailand

Pack of Campbell's Chunky Cheesy Baked Potato

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:

  • 65 ingredients
  • 6 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed meals with 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

water, chicken stock, potatoes, potatoes, russet potatoes, vegetable oil (corn, canola, and soybean), contains less than 2% of (modified food starch), cheese flavor base (cheddar cheese (milk, cultures, salt, enzymes), water, sodium phosphate), bacon bits (bacon (with water, salt, sugar, natural smoke flavoring, sodium phosphate, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite)), skim milk, dehydrated onions, salt, cream, wheat flour, yeast extract, soy protein, sugar, flavoring, pork, pork fat, spices, pork stock, wheat starch, natural smoke flavoring, beef extract, sunflower lecithin, onion extract, butter (cream, salt), buttermilk, enzyme modified butter, whey protein, enzyme modified butter fat, oil, enzyme modified cheddar cheese (cheddar cheese (milk, cultures, salt, enzymes, calcium chloride), water, disodium phosphate), whey, soy lecithin

Additives: E250 Sodium nitrite , E316 Sodium erythorbate , E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E339 Sodium phosphates , E339ii Disodium phosphate

As written on the pack

water, chicken stock, potatoes, baked potatoes, roasted russet potatoes, vegetable oil (corn, canola, and/or soybean), contains less than 2% of: modified food starch, cheese flavor base (cheddar cheese [milk, cultures, salt, enzymes], water, sodium phosphate), bacon bits (bacon [cured with water, salt, sugar, natural smoke flavoring, sodium phosphate, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite]), skim milk, dehydrated onions, salt, dehydrated cream, wheat flour, yeast extract, soy protein concentrate, sugar, flavoring, pork, pork fat, spices, pork stock, wheat starch, natural smoke flavoring, beef extract, sunflower lecithin, onion extract, dehydrated butter (cream, salt), buttermilk, enzyme modified butter, whey protein concentrate, enzyme modified butter fat and oil, enzyme modified cheddar cheese (cheddar cheese [milk, cultures, salt, enzymes, calcium chloride], water, disodium phosphate), whey, soy lecithin,

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.
  • 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.

  • Milk proteins Milk proteins are proteins separated from milk, such as caseinates and whey protein concentrates, added to adjust texture or raise protein content.
  • Whey Whey is the liquid left over from cheese making, usually dried into a powder and used as a cheap source of milk solids, protein and lactose.
8 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.

  • E250 Sodium nitrite Preservatives are substances which prolong the shelf-life of foods by protecting them against deterioration caused by micro-organisms and/or which protect against growth of pathogenic micro-organisms.
  • 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.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 213 meals with chicken

From least to most processed, this one ranks 192nd. 79% of the meals with 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 213 meals with chicken, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0051000128041, last edited 19 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.