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Is Lidl Southern style chicken bites ultra-processed?

85g Chicken and its products Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Lidl Southern style chicken bites

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:

  • 22 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score A

Less processed chicken and its products

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

Chicken Breast 91%, Rapeseed Oil, Water, Salt, Dextrose, Yeast Extract, Spices, Maltodextrin, Sugar, Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron Niacin, Thiamin), Maize Starch, Rice Flour, Barley Malt Extract, Tapioca Starch, Garlic, Onion, Spice Extracts, Lemon Extract

As written on the pack

91% Minced Chicken Breast, Rapeseed Oil, Water, Salt, Dextrose, Yeast Extract, Spices, Maltodextrin, Sugar, Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron Niacin, Thiamin), Maize Starch, Rice Flour, Barley Malt Extract, Tapioca Starch, Garlic, Onion, Spice Extracts, Lemon Extract.

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.
  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
3 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.

  • 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 467 chicken and its products

From least to most processed, this one ranks 295th. 74% of the chicken and its products 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 467 chicken and its products, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4335619020498, last edited 8 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 A (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.