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Is Jimmy Dean Breakfast Bowl Bacon Eggs, Potatoes, Bacon & Cheddar Cheese ultra-processed?

7oz Sold in the United States

Pack of Jimmy Dean Breakfast Bowl Bacon Eggs, Potatoes, Bacon & Cheddar Cheese

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:

  • 39 ingredients
  • 9 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Precooked scrambled eggs (whole eggs, skim milk, soybean oil, modified corn starch, xanthan gum, pepper, salt, citric acid, artificial butter flavor (soybean oil, butter, lipolyzed butter fat, flavors, artificial flavors)), potatoes (potatoes, vegetable oil (soybean, cottonseed oils), maltodextrin, salt, dextrose, tetrasodium pyrophosphate, sodium acid pyrophosphate (to maintain natural color)), bacon (smoke flavoring), mild cheddar cheese (milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, annatto color, cellulose (to prevent caking), may also contain natamycin (a mold inhibitor)), water

Additives: E235 Natamycin , E251 Sodium nitrate , E316 Sodium erythorbate , E330 Citric acid , E415 Xanthan gum , E450 Diphosphates , E450i Disodium diphosphate , E450iii Tetrasodium diphosphate , E460 Cellulose

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E251 Sodium nitrate.

As written on the pack

Precooked scrambled eggs (whole eggs, skim milk, soybean oil, modified corn starch, xanthan gum, liquid pepper extract, salt, citric acid, artificial butter flavor (soybean oil, butter, lipolyzed butter fat, flavors and artificial flavors)), diced potatoes (potatoes, vegetable oil [soybean and/or cottonseed oils], maltodextrin, salt, dextrose, tetrasodium pyrophosphate and sodium acid pyrophosphate [to maintain natural color])., bacon ([ cured with water, salt, sugar, sodium phosphates, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrate], smoke flavoring), shredded mild cheddar cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, annatto color, cellulose (to prevent caking), may also contain natamycin (a mold inhibitor)), water.

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.

  • E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
  • E450 Diphosphates Diphosphates are phosphate salts used as raising agents in baking powder, and to hold water in processed meats and cheese.
  • E460 Cellulose 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.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.
  • 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.

  • 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.
  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
8 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.

  • E251 Sodium nitrate Preservatives are substances which prolong the shelf-life of foods by protecting them against deterioration caused by micro-organisms and/or which protect against growth of pathogenic micro-organisms.
  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
  • Anti-caking agent Anti-caking agents are substances which reduce the tendency of individual particles of a foodstuff to adhere to one another.
  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • 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.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

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About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0077900471315, last edited 5 June 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.