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Is M&S Food chicken and bacon layered salad with mayonnaise, pasta ultra-processed?

400 g Salads with meat Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of M&S Food chicken and bacon layered salad with mayonnaise, pasta

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:

  • 23 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score B

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Cooked Pasta 21% (Water Durum Wheat Semolina), Cucumber Cooked Chicken Breast 11%, Carrots, Water Iceberg Lettuce Sweetcorn Rapeseed Oil Cooked Smoked Bacon 3% (Pork Curing Salt (Salt Preservative (Sodium Nitrite)), B ● Antioxidant (e301)), Fromage Frais, Cornflour, Egg Yolk, Lemon Juice, White Wine Vinegar, Salt, Sugar, Parsley, Vinegar, Mustard, Mustard Husk, Allspice, Turmeric

Additives: E301 Sodium ascorbate

As written on the pack

Cooked Pasta (21%) (Water Durum Wheat Semolina (contains Gluten)) Cucumber Cooked Chicken Breast (11%) Carrots - Water Iceberg Lettuce Sweetcorn Rapeseed Oil Cooked Smoked Bacon (3%) (Pork Curing Salt (Salt Preservative: Sodium Nitrite) B ● Antioxidant: E301) Fromage Frais (Milk) Cornflour Pasteurised, Egg Yolk, Lemon Juice, White Wine Vinegar, Salt, Sugar, Parsley, Vinegar, Dried Mustard, Mustard Husk, Allspice, Turmeric.

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.
  • 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 27 salads with meat

From least to most processed, this one ranks 7th. 67% of the salads with meat 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 salads with meat, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00505888, last edited 29 April 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.