Is Jimmy Dean Meat Lovers Breakfast Bowl ultra-processed?

198 g Sold in the United States

Pack of Jimmy Dean Meat Lovers Breakfast Bowl

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:

  • 51 ingredients
  • 9 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

precooked scrambled eggs (whole eggs, skim milk, soybean oil (processing marker), modified corn starch (ultra-processing marker), xanthan gum (ultra-processing marker), pepper, salt (processing marker), citric acid, butter flavor (ultra-processing marker) (butter (processing marker) (cream, milk), soybean (ultra-processing marker), cottonseed oil (processing marker), soybean oil (processing marker), lipolyzed butter oil, natural and artificial flavors)), potatoes (potatoes, vegetable oil (processing marker) (soybean (ultra-processing marker), cottonseed oils), maltodextrin (ultra-processing marker), salt (processing marker), dextrose (ultra-processing marker), tetrasodium pyrophosphate (ultra-processing marker), sodium acid pyrophosphate (ultra-processing marker) (to maintain natural color)), cooked pork sausage crumbles (pork, water, contains 2% and less of (salt (processing marker)), sugar (processing marker), spices, natural flavor (ultra-processing marker) (with maltodextrin (ultra-processing marker), succinic acid), sodium phosphate, caramel color, cooked in beef fat), mild cheddar cheese (processing marker) (milk, cheese culture, salt (processing marker), enzymes, annatto color), water, precooked bacon toppings smoke flavor added (smoke flavoring (ultra-processing marker))

Additives: E150c Ammonia caramel , E250 Sodium nitrite , E316 Sodium erythorbate , E330 Citric acid , E363 Succinic acid , E415 Xanthan gum , E450 Diphosphates , E450i Disodium diphosphate , E450iii Tetrasodium diphosphate

Also detected, but not matched to one ingredient: E150c Ammonia caramel, E250 Sodium nitrite.

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, butter flavor [butter {cream, milk}, partially hydrogenated soybean and cottonseed oil, soybean oil, lipolyzed butter oil, natural 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]), cooked pork sausage crumbles (pork, water, contains 2% or less of: salt, sugar, spices, natural flavor (with maltodextrin, succinic acid), sodium phosphate, caramel color, cooked in beef fat), shredded mild cheddar cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, annatto color), water, precooked bacon toppings smoke flavor added ([cured with water, salt, sugar, sodium phosphate, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite], smoke flavoring).

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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Soya bean An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.
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.

  • E250 Sodium nitrite 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.
  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • 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.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

How the NOVA groups work

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0077900706158, last edited 6 July 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.