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Is Lidl Chef Select Chicken Teriyaki With Rice & Vegetables ultra-processed?

Meals with chicken Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Lidl Chef Select Chicken Teriyaki With Rice & Vegetables

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:

  • 46 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score B

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Cooked Rice 42% (Rice, Water), Teriyaki Sauce 27%, Water, Soy Sauce (Water, Soya Beans, Wheat, Salt, Spirit Vinegar, Alcohol, Sugar), Molasses, Garlic Purée, Ginger, Tapioca Starch, Red Chilli, Black Vinegar (Water, Glutinous Rice, Wheat Bran, Sugar, Salt, Onion Powder, 5 Spice (Fennel, Cassia, Star Anise, Cloves, Black Pepper), Zinc, Niacin), Chicken 20% (Chicken, Salt), Vegetables 11% (Beansprouts, Carrot, Edamame Beans, Mixed Peppers (Red, Yellow, Green), White Cabbage), including cereals containing gluten

As written on the pack

42% Cooked Rice (Rice, Water), 27% Teriyaki Sauce (Water, Soy Sauce [Water, Soya Beans, Wheat, Salt, Spirit Vinegar, Alcohol, Sugar], Molasses, Garlic Purée, Ginger Purée, Tapioca Starch, Red Chilli, Black Vinegar (Water, Glutinous Rice, Wheat Bran, Sugar, Salt], Onion Powder, 5 Spice [Fennel, Cassia, Star Anise, Cloves, Black Pepper], Zinc, Niacin), 20% Cooked Chicken (Chicken, Salt), 11% Vegetables (Beansprouts, Carrot, Edamame Beans (Soya), Mixed Peppers [Red, Yellow, Green], White Cabbage). Allergy Advice: For allergens, including cereals containing gluten, see ingredients in bold. May also contain Crustaceans, Egg, Fish, Milk, Mustard, Nuts, Peanuts and Sesame.

What makes it processed

Processed ingredients

Processed foods in their own right, such as cheese or milk powder.

  • Sauce A prepared sauce used as an ingredient.

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.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 213 meals with chicken

From least to most processed, this one ranks 27th. 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 4056489903468, last edited 31 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 B (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.