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Is CP Food Service Thai Cube ultra-processed?

320 g Meals with chicken Sold in Sweden and Finland

Pack of CP Food Service Thai Cube

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:

  • 33 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed meals with chicken

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

noodles 45% (water, durum wheat semolina, refined soybean oil), chicken meat 18%, water, carrot 6%, broccoli 6%, sugar, ginger, chili, salt, sesame oil 1%, corn starch, white sesame seed, spring onion 0.6%, soybean, wheat flour, garlic, yeast extract, dextrose, shallot, brown sugar, glucose syrup, refined soybean oil, rice flour, sunflower oil, acidity regulator (e260), stabiliser (e415), colour (e160c)

Additives: E160c Paprika extract , E260 Acetic acid , E415 Xanthan gum

As written on the pack

cooked noodles 45% (water, durum wheat semolina, refined soybean oil), cooked chicken meat 18%, water, carrot 6%, broccoli 6%, sugar, ginger, chili, salt, sesame oil 1%, corn starch, white sesame seed, spring onion 0,6%, soybean, wheat flour, garlic, yeast extract, dextrose, shallot, brown sugar, glucose syrup, refined soybean oil, rice flour, sunflower oil, acidity regulator (e260), stabiliser (e415), colour (e160c),

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.
  • E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.

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.
  • Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
5 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.

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
  • 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.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 213 meals with chicken

From least to most processed, this one ranks 198th. 79% of the meals with 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 213 meals with chicken, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 8858984830029, 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.