Is M&S 2 Garlic Chicken Kiev ultra-processed?

285 g Chicken kievs Sold in the United Kingdom

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

Butter
Starch

20 ingredients
No additives
Nutri-Score D

Less processed breaded 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 49% (with Wheatflour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Butter (processing marker), Water 10%, Rapeseed Oil Garlic Purée Salt, Wheat Starch (processing marker), Wheat Gluten Yeast Parsley Rice Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Vinegar Concentrated Lemon Juice, Cornflour Sugar Dried Garlic, Dried Onions, Yeast Extract Ground White Pepper, Sage, IMPORTANT This product is raw and must be cooked, Although extra care has been taken to remove all bones, some small ones may remain * 22 2023 59OX OFF NU Typ mo En En Fa of gra ve Ca Ko of W P S F

As written on the pack

Chicken Breast (49%) Wheatflour contains Gluten (with Wheatflour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin) Butter (Milk) - Water (10%)- Rapeseed Oil Garlic Purée Salt. Wheat Starch (contains Gluten) - Wheat Gluten Yeast Parsley Rice Flour - Malted Barley Flour (contains Gluten) Vinegar Concentrated Lemon Juice - Cornflour Sugar Dried Garlic - Dried Onions - Yeast Extract Ground White Pepper - Dried Sage. For allergens see ingredients in bold. IMPORTANT This product is raw and must be cooked. Although extra care has been taken to remove all bones, some small ones may remain * 22 2023 59OX OFF NU Typ mo En En Fa of gra ve Ca Ko of W P S F

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 13 chicken kievs

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1st. 77% of the chicken kievs 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 13 chicken kievs, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00391733, last edited 27 March 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.