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Is Ginsters Chicken & Mushroom Slice ultra-processed?

170 g Meals with chicken Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Ginsters Chicken & Mushroom Slice

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

  • 29 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Wheat Flour (Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), British Chicken 23%, Vegetable Oil (Palm Vegetable Oil, Rapeseed Vegetable Oil), Water, Mushrooms 10%, Potato, Single Cream, Cornflour, Onion, Salt, Egg, Milk, Chicken Bouillon (Chicken, Salt, Yeast Extract, Onion, Rapeseed Oil, Spices), Tapioca Starch, Parsley, White Pepper, Mustard

As written on the pack

Wheat Flour (Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), British Chicken (23%), Vegetable Oil (Palm, Rapeseed), Water, Mushrooms (10%), Potato, Single Cream (Milk), Cornflour, Onion, Salt, Egg, Milk, Chicken Bouillon (Chicken, Salt, Yeast Extract, Onion, Rapeseed Oil, Spices), Tapioca Starch, Parsley, White Pepper, Mustard

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

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.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 213 meals with chicken

From least to most processed, this one ranks 15th. 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 5010718306306, last edited 4 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 D (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.