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Is Cook Butter Chicken Curry ultra-processed?

Butter chicken Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Cook Butter Chicken Curry

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:

  • 42 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Chicken 32%, Onions, Water, Tomato Puree 9%, Natural Yoghurt, Salted Butter 3%, Double Cream 3%, Single Cream, Ginger, Garlic, Sugar, Cinnamon, Salt, Lime Juice, Coriander, Garam Masala (Coriander, Cassia, Ginger, Cloves), Rapeseed Oil, Lemon Juice Concentrate (Preservative (Potassium Metabisulphite)), Coriander, Madras Powder (Coriander, Turmeric, Chilli, Mustard, Cumin, Pepper, Fenugreek, Garlic, Salt, Fennel), Paprika, Chilli, Bay Leaf, Cumin, Cardamom, Cloves

Additives: E224 Potassium metabisulphite

As written on the pack

Chicken (32%), Onions, Water, Tomato Puree (9%), Natural Yoghurt [Milk], Salted Butter (3%) [Milk], Double Cream (3%) [Milk], Single Cream [Milk]. Ginger Puree, Garlic, Sugar, Cinnamon, Salt, Lime Juice, Coriander, Ground Garam Masala (Coriander, Cassia, Ginger, Cloves), Rapeseed Oil, Lemon Juice Concentrate (Preservative: Potassium Metabisulphite), Ground Coriander, Madras Powder (Coriander, Turmeric, Chilli, Mustard, Cumin, Pepper, Fenugreek, Garlic, Salt, Fennel), Paprika, Chilli Powder, Bay Leaf, Ground Cumin, Cardamom, 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.

Preservation and traditional processing

Keep food safe or ferment it, like preservatives and cultures. A sign of processing, not ultra-processing.

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 10 butter chicken

From least to most processed, this one ranks 5th. 50% of the butter 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 10 butter chicken, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5056517313848, last edited 27 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.
  • 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.