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Is Chef Select American Style Cheeseburger ultra-processed?

320 g (2 x 160 g) Poultry meals Sold in Sweden and Finland

Pack of Chef Select American Style Cheeseburger

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:

  • 41 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed poultry meals

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

Kalkon, och kycklingburgare 50% (kalkonfärs 20.5%, kyckling 11.5%, vatten, ströbröd (vetemjöl, vatten, salt, jäst), kyckling, och kalkonfett, kyckling, och kalkonskinn, lök, salt, kryddor, örtkryddor, solrosolja, druvsocker, vetestärkelse, ägg), hamburgerbröd med sesamfrön 35% (vetemjöl, vatten, socker, rapsolja, jäst, salt, sesamfrön 0.5%, vetesurdeg, mono- och diglyceriders mono- och diacetylvinsyraestrar, askorbinsyra), goudaost 9%, tomatketchup 6% (koncentrerad tomatpuré, glukos-fruktossirap, socker, ättiksprit, salt, naturlig arom)

Additives: E300 Ascorbic acid , E472e Mono- and diacetyltartaric acid esters of mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids

As written on the pack

Kalkon - och kycklingburgare 50 % (kalkonfärs 20,5 %, kycklingfärs 11,5 %, vatten, ströbröd (vetemjöl, vatten, salt, jäst), kyckling - och kalkonfett, kyckling - och kalkonskinn, lök, salt, kryddor (innehåller senap), örtkryddor, solrosolja, druvsocker, vetestärkelse, ägg), hamburgerbröd med sesamfrön 35 % (vetemjöl, vatten, socker, rapsolja, jäst, salt, sesamfrön 0,5 %, torkad vetesurdeg, emulgeringsmedel (mono - och diglyceriders mono - och diacetylvinsyraestrar), mjölbehandlingsmedel (askorbinsyra)), goudaost 9%, tomatketchup 6 % (koncentrerad tomatpuré, glukos-fruktossirap, socker, ättiksprit, salt, naturlig arom).

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.

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.

  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
6 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.
  • 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.
  • Sandwiches Products in the category "Sandwiches" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 233 poultry meals

From least to most processed, this one ranks 191st. 78% of the poultry meals 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 233 poultry meals, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 20995317, last edited 8 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.