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Is H.J. Heinz Kyckling Verona ultra-processed?

380 g Meals with chicken Sold in Sweden

Pack of H.J. Heinz Kyckling Verona

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:

  • 40 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score B

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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

Pasta 24% (vatten, mannagryn av durumvete, äggvitepulver), broccoli 17%, vatten, kycklingfilé 13% (kyckling, salt, surhetsreglerande medel (difosfater, trifosfater, polyfosfater)), vitt vin 9.2%, paprika 5.7%, champinjoner 4.7%, lök, grädde, skummjölkspulver, modifierad stärkelse, champinjonbuljong (champinjon, maltodextrin, palmfett, salt, champinjonextrakt), kycklingbuljong (kyckling, vatten, salt, maltodextrin, kycklingfett, kycklingsköttpulver, jästextrakt), salt, socker, vitlök, lök, senapsfröpulver, svartpeppar

Additives: E14XX Modified Starch , E450 Diphosphates , E451 Triphosphates , E452 Polyphosphates

As written on the pack

Pasta 24% (vatten, mannagryn av durumvete, äggvitepulver), broccoli 17%, vatten, kokt kycklingfilé 13% (kyckling, salt, surhetsreglerande medel (difosfater, trifosfater, polyfosfater)), vitt vin 9,2%, paprika 5,7%, champinjoner 4,7%, lök, grädde, skummjölkspulver, modifierad stärkelse, champinjonbuljong (champinjonkoncentrat, maltodextrin, palmfett, salt, champinjonextrakt), kycklingbuljong (kyckling, vatten, salt, maltodextrin, kycklingfett, kycklingsköttpulver, jästextrakt), salt, socker, vitlök, lökpulver, senapsfröpulver, svartpeppar.

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.
  • E450 Diphosphates Diphosphates are phosphate salts used as raising agents in baking powder, and to hold water in processed meats and cheese.
  • E451 Triphosphates 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.
  • E452 Polyphosphates 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.
  • 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.

  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
5 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.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Milk powder Milk powder is milk with the water evaporated off: a preserved form of a whole food rather than an industrial extract.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 213 meals with chicken

From least to most processed, this one ranks 201st. 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 5390003009502, 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 B (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.