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Is M&S Food Butter Chicken ultra-processed?

400 g e Butter chicken Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of M&S Food Butter Chicken

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:

  • 20 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Chicken Breast 50%, Single Cream, Water Tomatoes 9%, Tomato Paste Unsalted Butter, Ginger Purée Garlic Purée, Rapeseed Oil Sugar Cornflour, Yogurt, Lemon Juice, Salt, mins Ground Garam Masala (Coriander, Cumin, Cinnamon Nutmeg Kashmiri Chilli Powder Black Pepper Green Cardamom Cloves Bay Leaves), Coriander, Coriander, ray, Ground Cinnamon for nergy urates ars, Turmeric, Chilli Powder Kashmiri Chilli Powder, Fenugreek Leaves

As written on the pack

Smoked Chicken Breast (50%) Single Cream (Milk) (19%) Water Tomatoes (9%). Tomato Paste Unsalted Butter (Milk) (6%). Ginger Purée Garlic Purée. Rapeseed Oil Sugar Cornflour. Yogurt (Milk) Lemon Juice · Salt - mins Ground Garam Masala (Roasted Coriander. Roasted Cumin . Cinnamon Nutmeg Kashmiri Chilli Powder Black Pepper Green Cardamom Cloves Bay Leaves). Coriander. Ground Coriander. ray. Ground Cinnamon for nergy urates ars 0.45g. Turmeric - Chilli Powder Kashmiri Chilli Powder. Fenugreek Leaves.

What makes it processed

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.

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 10 butter chicken

From least to most processed, this one ranks 3rd. 50% of the butter 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 10 butter chicken, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00481502, last edited 13 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.