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Is Chick'n Chicken Burger ultra-processed?

300g Hamburgers Sold in Sweden

Pack of Chick'n Chicken Burger

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:

  • 35 ingredients
  • 5 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed hamburgers

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

kyckling 66% (kycklingkött 33%, vatten, kycklingskinn, sojafiber, vetemjöl, vetefiber, jäst, stärkelse, salt, peppar, vitlöks, socker, glukos, antioxidationsmedel (e301), förtjockningsmedel (e460), surhetsreglerande medel (e500), stabiliseringsmedel (e461, e576), kycklingarom), panering 27% (vetemjöl, vatten, salt, jäst, gurkmeja, paprika, extrakt, potatisstärkelse, modifierad potatisstärkelse), rapsolja

Additives: E301 Sodium ascorbate , E460 Cellulose , E461 Methyl cellulose , E500 Sodium carbonates , E576 Sodium gluconate

As written on the pack

66% kycklingfärs (33% kycklingkött, vatten, kycklingskinn, sojafiber, vetemjöl, vetefiber, jäst, stärkelse, salt, peppar, vitlökspulver, socker, glukos, antioxidationsmedel (E 301), förtjockningsmedel (E 460), surhetsreglerande medel (E500), stabiliseringsmedel (E 461, E 576), kycklingarom), 27% panering (vetemjöl, vatten, salt, jäst, gurkmeja, paprika - extrakt, potatisstärkelse, modifierad potatisstärkelse), rapsolja. Kan innehålla spår av ägg, mjölk, selleri och senap.

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.

  • E460 Cellulose A food additive used to dissolve, dilute, disperse or otherwise physically modify a food additive or nutrient without altering its function -and without exerting any technological effect itself- in order to facilitate its handling, application or use of the food additive or nutrient.
  • E461 Methyl cellulose Emulsifiers are substances which make it possible to form or maintain a homogenous mixture of two or more immiscible phases such as oil and water in a foodstuff.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.
  • 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.

  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • 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.
4 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.
  • Sandwiches Products in the category "Sandwiches" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 60 hamburgers

From least to most processed, this one ranks 56th. 62% of the hamburgers 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 60 hamburgers, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 91874238, last edited 2 April 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.