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Is Coop Chicken nuggets ultra-processed?

500 g Chicken nuggets

Pack of Coop Chicken nuggets

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:

  • 22 ingredients
  • 4 additives

Less processed chicken nuggets

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

Kycklingkött 53%, vatten, vetemjöl, olja (rapsolja, solrosolja), majsmjöl, semolinagryn (vete), majsstärkelse, potatisflingor, salt, vetegluten, bakpulver (e450, e500, e341), vetestärkelse, svartpeppar, dextros, selleri, rosmarinextrakt

Additives: E341 Calcium phosphates , E392 Extracts of rosemary , E450 Diphosphates , E500 Sodium carbonates

As written on the pack

Kycklingkött 53% (Sverige), vatten, vetemjöl, vegetabilisk olja (rapsolja, solrosolja), majsmjöl, semolinagryn (vete), majsstärkelse, potatisflingor, salt, vetegluten, bakpulver (E450, E500, E341), vetestärkelse, svartpeppar, dextros, selleri, rosmarinextrakt. URSPRUNG KYCKLING: Sverige.

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.

  • E450 Diphosphates Diphosphates are phosphate salts used as raising agents in baking powder, and to hold water in processed meats and cheese.

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.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Gluten Wheat gluten, sold as "vital wheat gluten", is the protein washed out of wheat flour.
3 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.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 53 chicken nuggets

From least to most processed, this one ranks 41st. 87% of the chicken nuggets 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 chicken nuggets, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 7300156578686, last edited 6 August 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.