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Is Fry Family Food Co. Chick’n Burgers ultra-processed?

4 Frozen meats Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Fry Family Food Co. Chick’n Burgers

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:

  • 70 ingredients
  • 10 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed frozen meats

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, crumb 15% (WHEAT flour, olive oil, salt, yeast, antioxidant (e300), WHEAT gluten), sunflower oil, predust, cereal (WHEAT flour, palm fruit fat, emulsifier (e471), raising agent (e500), colour (e150c), salt), salt, sugar, vegetables (onion, garlic), potato starch, spices, herbs, herb, spice extracts, WHEAT fibre, thickener (e407a), canola oil, yeast extract, acidity regulatory (e331), smoke flavouring, maltodextrin, batter (WHEAT flour, maize flour, WHEAT starch, vegetables (onion, garlic), raising agent (e450i, e450ii), canola oil, spice extract (wheat)), protein blend 10% (SOY protein isolate, WHEAT gluten, pea protein, starch (corn, wheat)), bamboo fibre, starch (potato, com), yeast extract, salt, thickener (e461), WHEAT gluten, dextrose

Additives: E150c Ammonia caramel , E300 Ascorbic acid , E331 Sodium citrates , E407a Processed eucheuma seaweed , E450 Diphosphates , E450i Disodium diphosphate , E450ii Trisodium diphosphate , E461 Methyl cellulose , E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids , E500 Sodium carbonates

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E150c Ammonia caramel.

As written on the pack

Water, crumb 15% (WHEAT flour, olive oil, salt, dried yeast, antioxidant (E300), WHEAT gluten), sunflower oil, predust (cereal (WHEAT flour, palm fruit fat, emulsifier (E471), raising agent (E500), colour (E150c), salt), salt, sugar, dehydrated vegetables (onion, garlic), potato starch, spices, herbs, herb & spice extracts, WHEAT fibre, thickener (E407a), canola oil, yeast extract, acidity regulatory (E331), smoke flavouring, maltodextrin), batter (WHEAT flour, maize flour, WHEAT starch, dehydrated vegetables (onion, garlic), raising agent (E450i, E450ii), canola oil, spice extract (WHEAT)), protein blend 10% (SOY protein isolate, WHEAT gluten, pea protein, starch (corn, WHEAT)), bamboo fibre, starch (potato, com), yeast extract, salt, thickener (E461), WHEAT gluten, 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.

  • E150c Ammonia caramel Ammonia caramel is a brown colour made by heating sugars with ammonia compounds.
  • E407a Processed eucheuma seaweed A food additive used to dissolve, dilute, disperse or otherwise physically modify a food additive or nutrient without altering its function -and without exerting any technological effect itself- in order to facilitate its handling, application or use of the food additive or nutrient.
  • E450 Diphosphates Diphosphates are phosphate salts used as raising agents in baking powder, and to hold water in processed meats and cheese.
  • 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.
  • E471 Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids are made from fats and glycerol.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
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  • Emulsifier Emulsifiers keep fat and water from separating, giving products a smooth, stable texture over a long shelf life.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.

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.
  • Gluten Wheat gluten, sold as "vital wheat gluten", is the protein washed out of wheat flour.
  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
  • Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
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.

  • 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 83 frozen meats

From least to most processed, this one ranks 83rd. 59% of the frozen meats 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.

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About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 6009712300235, last edited 14 May 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.