Is Fridge Raiders Southern Style Chicken Bites (22.5g) ultra-processed?

Breaded chicken Sold in the United Kingdom

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Dextrose
Flavouring
Glucose
E170 Calcium carbonates

24 ingredients
4 additives

Less processed breaded 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

Chicken Breast, Vegetable Oils (processing marker) (Soya Bean Sunflower, Rapeseed), Seasoning (Salt (processing marker), Onion Powder Sugar, Yeast Extract, Carle Power Spices, Trisodium Phosphate, Flavourings (ultra-processing marker) (Chicken, Black Popper)), Rusik, wheat flour, Wheat flour, Calcium Carbonate (ultra-processing marker), Iron, Niacin, Thiamini, Salt (processing marker), Ammonium Bicarbonatel, Tapioca Starch (processing marker), Dextrose (ultra-processing marker)

Additives: E170 Calcium carbonates , E170i Calcium carbonate , E339 Sodium phosphates , E339iii Trisodium phosphate

As written on the pack

Chicken Breast (20), Vegetable Oils (Soya Bean Sunflower, Rapeseed) Seasoning (Salt, Onion Powder Sugar, Yeast Extract, Carle Power Spices, Stabiliser Trisodium Phosphate, Flavourings (Chicken, Black Popper)), Rusik (wheat flour, (Wheat flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamini, Salt, Raising Agent: Ammonium Bicarbonatel, Tapioca Starch, Dextrose

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.

E170 Calcium carbonates Calcium carbonate is chalk.
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.

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.

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 115 breaded chicken

From least to most processed, this one ranks 94th. 83% of the breaded 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 115 breaded chicken, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5057624867958, last edited 28 September 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
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The NOVA group is an automated estimate from crowdsourced data: a missing or mistyped ingredient can change it.
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