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Is Just Bare Lightly Breaded Chicken Breast Bites Spicy ultra-processed?

24 oz Chicken nuggets Sold in the United States

Pack of Just Bare Lightly Breaded Chicken Breast Bites Spicy

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:

  • 19 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score D

Less processed breaded chicken

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

boneless skinless chicken breast, water, seasoning, salt, sugar, spices including red pepper, paprika, spice, rice starch, breading set in wheat flour, sugar, salt, spices including paprika, leavening, cream of tartar, sodium bicarbonate, paprika, spice, breading set in vegetable oil

Additives: E336 Potassium tartrates , E336i Monopotassium tartrate , E500 Sodium carbonates , E500ii Sodium hydrogen carbonate

As written on the pack

boneless skinless chicken breast, water, seasoning, salt, sugar, spices including red pepper, paprika, spice extractive, rice starch, breading set in wheat flour, sugar, salt, spices including paprika, leavening, cream of tartar, sodium bicarbonate, extractive of paprika, spice extractive, breading set in vegetable oil

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.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 53 chicken nuggets

From least to most processed, this one ranks 7th. 87% of the chicken nuggets 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 53 chicken nuggets, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0077013615729, last edited 23 August 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.