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Is Lidl 10 Chicken Chipolatas ultra-processed?

Chipolatas Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Lidl 10 Chicken Chipolatas

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:

  • 23 ingredients
  • 2 additives
  • Nutri-Score B

Less processed chipolatas

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

british chicken chipolata sausages with sun-dried tomatoes, mozz th spices gredients 85% british chicken, water, chopped m-dried tomatoes 2% (tomatoes, salt), rice flour, mozzarella cheese 1%, basil, gram flour, salt, dried tomato, garlic purée, demerara sugar, black pepper, iphosphates, sodium metabisulphite, white pepper, maize starch, ascorbic acid, rubbed tegano, dextrose, filled into alginate casings

Additives: E223 Sodium metabisulphite , E300 Ascorbic acid

As written on the pack

british chicken chipolata sausages with sun-dried tomatoes, mozz th spices gredients 85% british chicken, water, 2% chopped m-dried tomatoes (tomatoes, salt), rice flour, 1% mozzarella cheese (milk), chopped basil, gram flour, salt, dried tomato, garlic purée, demerara sugar, ground black pepper, stabiliser: iphosphates, preservative: sodium metabisulphite, white pepper, maize starch, antioxidant: ascorbic acid, rubbed tegano, dextrose, filled into alginate casings, allergy advice for allergens, see ingredients in bold,

What makes it ultra-processed

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.
6 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.

  • Prepared meats Products in the category "Prepared meats" are at least group 3.
  • Sausages Products in the category "Sausages" 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.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 27 chipolatas

From least to most processed, this one ranks 8th. 89% of the chipolatas 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 27 chipolatas, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4056489296300, last edited 29 September 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.