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Is Charlie Bigham's Chicken Tikka Masala & Pilau Rice ultra-processed?

805g Chicken tikka masala Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Charlie Bigham's Chicken Tikka Masala & Pilau Rice

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:

  • 52 ingredients
  • 1 additive

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

water, chicken 19%, cream, rice 14%, onions, greek-style yoghurt, butter, tomato purée, ginger, mango chutney (mangoes, sugar, salt, acetic acid, garlic, cumin seeds, mixed spices, fenugreek seeds, nigella, herbs), lemon juice, garlic purée, rapeseed oil, salt, coriander, lime pickle (lime, salt, sugar, red chillies, mustard seeds, turmeric, acetic acid), cornflour, cumin, red chillies, parsley, black onion seeds, yellow mustard seeds, fenugreek, cayenne pepper, paprika oil, chilli, black pepper, turmeric, cinnamon, dill, ground ginger, cardamom seeds, coriander seeds, cardamom, ground cloves

Additives: E260 Acetic acid

As written on the pack

water, chicken (19%), cream (milk), rice (14%), onions, greek-style yoghurt (milk), butter (milk), tomato purée, ginger purée, mango chutney (mangoes, sugar, salt, acidity regulator: acetic acid*, garlic, cumin seeds, mixed spices, fenugreek seeds, nigella seeds, herbs), lemon juice, garlic purée, rapeseed oil, salt, ground coriander, lime pickle (lime, salt, sugar, red chillies, mustard seeds, turmeric, acidity regulator: acetic acid*), cornflour, ground cumin, red chillies**, fresh parsley, black onion seeds, yellow mustard seeds, ground fenugreek, cayenne pepper, paprika oil, ground chilli, ground black pepper, turmeric, ground cinnamon, ground dill, ground ginger, cardamom seeds, coriander seeds, ground cardamom, ground cloves.

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

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 19 chicken tikka masala

From least to most processed, this one ranks 2nd. 89% of the chicken tikka masala 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 19 chicken tikka masala, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5033665209773, last edited 24 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.
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.