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Is Kitchen Joy Sweet Chili Chicken Teriyaki with Jasmine Rice ultra-processed?

350 g Meals with chicken Sold in Sweden and Finland

Pack of Kitchen Joy Sweet Chili Chicken Teriyaki with Jasmine Rice

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:

  • 29 ingredients
  • 4 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

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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

jasmine rice 50% (water, jasmine rice, sunflower oil), chicken meat 21%, water, sugar, fructose syrup, chinese broccoli 3%, carrot 2%, salt, soybean, wheat flour, corn starch, ginger, garlic, brown sugar, white pepper, red chili, glucose syrup, refined soybean oil, dextrose, sunflower oil, acidity regulators (e260, e331, e500), colour (e160c)

Additives: E160c Paprika extract , E260 Acetic acid , E331 Sodium citrates , E500 Sodium carbonates

As written on the pack

Cooked jasmine rice 50% (water, jasmine rice, sunflower oil), cooked chicken meat 21%, water, sugar, fructose syrup, chinese broccoli 3%, carrot 2%, salt, soybean, wheat flour, corn starch, ginger, garlic, brown sugar, white pepper powder, red chili, glucose syrup, refined soybean oil, dextrose, sunflower oil, acidity regulators (E260, E331, E500), colour (E160c).

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.

  • E160c Paprika extract Paprika extract is a red-orange colour extracted from paprika peppers.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.

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.
  • Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn 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.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 213 meals with chicken

From least to most processed, this one ranks 200th. 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 8855702007749, 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.