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Is Cully & Sully Charming Chicken Risotto with Leek, Spring Onion & Herbs ultra-processed?

400 g Meals with chicken Sold in the United Kingdom and Ireland

Pack of Cully & Sully Charming Chicken Risotto with Leek, Spring Onion & Herbs

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:

  • 37 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score C

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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

Water, leek 12%, Arborio rice, celery, onion, chicken 8%, spring onion 5%, white wine, olive oil, salt, chicken, vegetable stock (salt, maltodextrin, yeast extract, flavouring, herbs and spices (black pepper, turmeric, parsley), sugar, vegetable (onion, celery, carrot), chicken, sunflower oil, chicken fat, acid (citric acid), caramelised sugar), garlic purée, parsley, black pepper, rosemary, thyme, sage

Additives: E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

Water, leek 12%, Arborio rice, celery, onion, chicken 8%, spring onion 5%, white wine, olive oil, salt, chicken and vegetable stock (salt, maltodextrin, yeast extract, flavouring, herbs and spices (black pepper, turmeric, parsley), sugar, vegetable (onion, celery, carrot), chicken, sunflower oil, chicken fat, acid (citric acid), caramelised sugar), garlic purée, parsley, black pepper, rosemary, thyme, sage

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.

  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.

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.

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • 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 102nd. 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 5391511421466, 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.
  • 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.