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Is M&S Food Chicken Honey and Mustard Pasta Salad ultra-processed?

360g Pasta salads Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of M&S Food Chicken Honey and Mustard Pasta Salad

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:

  • 30 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score B

Less processed pasta salads

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

Egg Pasta 41% (Water Durum Wheat Semolina, Egg), Chicken Breast 13%, Sweetcorn, Crème Fraîche, Water, Peppers, Tomatoes, Greek Style Yogurt, Rapeseed Oil, Honey 2%, Lemon Juice, Vinegar, Parsley, Mustard Seeds, Vegetable Oil (Sunflower Vegetable Oil, Rapeseed Vegetable Oil), Salt, Mustard, Sugar, Garlic Purée, Pasteurised Egg Yolk, Cornflour, Citrus Fibre, White Pepper, Black Pepper, Egg White, Mustard Husk

As written on the pack

Cooked Egg Pasta (41%) (Water Durum Wheat Semolina (contains Gluten) Pasteurised Egg), Chicken Breast (13%), Sweetcorn, Crème Fraîche (Milk), Water, Peppers, Tomatoes, Greek Style Yogurt (Milk), Rapeseed Oil, Honey (2%), Lemon Juice, Vinegar, Parsley, Mustard Seeds, Vegetable Oil (Sunflower/Rapeseed), Salt, Dried Mustard, Sugar, Garlic Purée, Pasteurised Egg Yolk, Cornflour, Citrus Fibre, Ground White Pepper, Ground Black Pepper, Dried Egg White, Mustard Husk.

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.

  • Vegetable fiber Isolated plant fibres, such as inulin, oat fibre or bamboo fibre, are extracted industrially and added to change texture or support "source of fibre" claims.
5 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.

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
  • Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 42 pasta salads

From least to most processed, this one ranks 19th. 60% of the pasta salads 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 42 pasta salads, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00681612, last edited 30 May 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.