Is Crazy Cuizine Mandarin Orange Chicken ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 30 ingredients
- 1 additive
- Nutri-Score C
Less processed chickens
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
breast meat chicken with rib meat, water, enriched wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid, soybean oil (processing marker), cornstarch (processing marker), modified food starch (ultra-processing marker), salt (processing marker), isolated soy protein, potassium carbonate, dextrose (ultra-processing marker), eggs, spices, whey (ultra-processing marker), carrageenan (ultra-processing marker), tricalcium phosphate, sodium bicarbonate, water, sugar (processing marker), distilled vinegar, soy sauce (processing marker), modified cornstarch (ultra-processing marker), spice, orange juice, orange oil, mandarin orange flavor
Additives: E407 Carrageenan
As written on the pack
breast meat chicken with rib meat, water, unbleached enriched wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid, soybean oil, cornstarch, modified food starch, salt, isolated soy protein, potassium carbonate, dextrose, eggs, spices, whey solids, carrageenan, tricalcium phosphate, sodium bicarbonate, water, sugar, distilled vinegar, soy sauce, modified cornstarch, spice, orange juice concentrate, orange oil, mandarin orange flavor
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.
- E407 Carrageenan Carrageenan is a thickener and gelling agent extracted from red seaweed, used widely in dairy desserts, plant-based drinks and processed meats.
- Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.
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.
- Whey Whey is the liquid left over from cheese making, usually dried into a powder and used as a cheap source of milk solids, protein and lactose.
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.
- 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.
- Sauce A prepared sauce used as an ingredient.
Among 356 chickens
From least to most processed, this one ranks 303rd. 74% of the chickens here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0078139735162, last edited 9 June 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.