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Is Itsu (supermarket Range) Gyoza Dumplings Chicken & Spring Onion ultra-processed?

Poultry meals Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Itsu (supermarket Range) Gyoza Dumplings Chicken & Spring Onion

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:

  • 18 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score B

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

chicken thigh, skin 37% cabbage, white onion, spring onion 5%, soy sauce, ginger, yeast extract, garlic, chicken stock, sesame oil, soya protein, sugar, salt, black pepper, turmeric, wheat flour, tapioca starch, rapeseed oil

As written on the pack

chicken thigh and skin 37% cabbage, white onion, spring onion 5%, soy sauce, ginger, yeast extract, garlic, chicken stock, sesame oil, soya protein, sugar, salt, black pepper, turmeric, wheat flour, tapioca starch, rapeseed oil

What makes it processed

Processed ingredients

Processed foods in their own right, such as cheese or milk powder.

  • Sauce A prepared sauce used as an ingredient.

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.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • 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 233 poultry meals

From least to most processed, this one ranks 6th. 78% of the poultry meals 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 233 poultry meals, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5060960662279, last edited 22 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 B (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.