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Is Culinea Pechuga de pollo con brócoli y queso ultra-processed?

500 g Chicken breasts Sold in Sweden

Pack of Culinea Pechuga de pollo con brócoli y queso

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:

  • 44 ingredients
  • 5 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Less processed chicken breasts

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

Kycklingbröstfilé 49%, panering (vetemjöl, modifierad vetestärkelse, vetegluten, jäst, kryddor, kryddextrakt), fyllning 20% (broccoli 8%, vatten, gräddpulver, emmentalerost 1.6% (mjölk, syrningskultur, salt, ystenzym, stärkelse), modifierad stärkelse, förtjockningsmedel (metylcellulosa, fruktkärnmjöl, xantangummi), salt, lök, kryddor, lagerblad, gelatin (av gris), socker, salt, jästextrakt, druvsocker, konserveringsmedel (kaliumsorbat), kryddextrakt), rapsolja, vatten, salt, torkad glukossirap, kryddextrakt, druvsocker, lök, vitlöks

Additives: E14XX Modified Starch , E202 Potassium sorbate , E415 Xanthan gum , E428 Gelatine , E461 Methyl cellulose

As written on the pack

Kycklingbröstfilé 49 %, panering (vetemjöl, modifierad vetestärkelse, vetegluten, jäst, kryddor, kryddextrakt), fyllning 20 % (broccoli 8 %, vatten, gräddpulver, emmentalerost 1,6 % (mjölk, syrningskultur, salt, ystenzym, stärkelse), modifierad stärkelse, förtjockningsmedel (metylcellulosa, fruktkärnmjöl, xantangummi), salt, lök, kryddor, lagerblad, gelatin (av gris), socker, salt, jästextrakt, druvsocker, konserveringsmedel (kaliumsorbat), kryddextrakt (innehåller selleri)), rapsolja, vatten, salt, torkad glukossirap, kryddextrakt, druvsocker, lökpulver, vitlökspulver.

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.

  • E14xx Modified Starch Modified starches (E1400 to E1452) are starches treated physically, with enzymes or chemically so that they thicken and hold up to heating, freezing or acidity better than ordinary starch.
  • E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
  • E428 Gelatine Gelatine is a gelling agent made from collagen in animal skin and bones.
  • E461 Methyl cellulose 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.
  • Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.
  • 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.

  • 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.
  • Gluten Wheat gluten, sold as "vital wheat gluten", is the protein washed out of wheat flour.
6 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.

  • E202 Potassium sorbate Preservatives are substances which prolong the shelf-life of foods by protecting them against deterioration caused by micro-organisms and/or which protect against growth of pathogenic micro-organisms.
  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.
  • 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.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 83 chicken breasts

From least to most processed, this one ranks 83rd. 65% of the chicken breasts 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 83 chicken breasts, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 20256326, 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.