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Is Coop Chicken Breast Slices with a Herbal, Garlic and Onion Marinade ultra-processed?

170 gm Cooked chicken breast slices Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Coop Chicken Breast Slices with a Herbal, Garlic and Onion Marinade

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:

  • 26 ingredients
  • 2 additives

Less processed cooked chicken breast slices

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 90%, Sugar, Cornflour, Maltodextrin, Stabiliser (Triphosphates), Herbs (Sage, Parsley), Salt, Dehydrated Onion, Garlic, Yeast Extract, Buttermilk Powder, Brown Sugar, Butter (Butter, Skimmed Milk), Onion, Lemon Peel, Smoked Salt, Black Pepper, Lemon Oil, Sage, Paprika Extract, Marjoram

Additives: E160c Paprika extract , E451 Triphosphates

As written on the pack

Chicken Breast (90%), Sugar, Cornflour, Maltodextrin, Stabiliser (Triphosphates), Herbs (Sage, Parsley), Salt, Dehydrated Onion, Garlic Powder, Yeast Extract, Buttermilk Powder (Milk), Brown Sugar, Butter Powder (Milk)(Butter (Milk), Skimmed Milk), Onion Powder, Dehydrated Lemon Peel, Smoked Salt, Black Pepper, Lemon Oil, Sage Extract, Paprika Extract, Marjoram Extract.

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.

  • E160c Paprika extract Paprika extract is a red-orange colour extracted from paprika peppers.
  • E451 Triphosphates 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.

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.

  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
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.

  • Prepared meats Products in the category "Prepared meats" are at least group 3.
  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 53 cooked chicken breast slices

From least to most processed, this one ranks 36th. 85% of the cooked chicken breast slices 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 53 cooked chicken breast slices, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5000129303247, 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.
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.