Is Co op Garlic chicken kyiv ultra-processed?

325 g Chicken kievs Sold in the United Kingdom

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

Butter
Salt
Sugar
Vegetable oil

24 ingredients
No additives
Nutri-Score A

Less processed breaded products

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 76%, Butter (processing marker), Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Water, Rapeseed Oil, Garlic Purée, Sunflower Oil (processing marker), Garlic, Parsley, Cornflour, Salt (processing marker), Sugar (processing marker), Lemon Juice, Garlic, Dried Garlic, Yeast, Parsley, Dried Rosemary, Turmeric

As written on the pack

Chicken Breast (76%), Butter (Milk) (8%), Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Water, Rapeseed Oil, Garlic Purée, Sunflower Oil, Garlic, Parsley, Cornflour, Salt, Sugar, Lemon Juice, Garlic Powder, Dried Garlic, Yeast, Dried Parsley, Dried Rosemary, Ground Turmeric

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.
Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

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 13 chicken kievs

From least to most processed, this one ranks 3rd. 77% of the chicken kievs 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 13 chicken kievs, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000128734295, last edited 4 July 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 A (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.