Is M&S Food Chicken Stock Pot ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 21 ingredients
- 1 additive
- Nutri-Score E
Less processed bouillon pots
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
Water, Yeast Extract, Salt (processing marker), Chicken Stock (Water, Chicken Bones, Chicken, Salt (processing marker), Chicken Fat), Glucose (ultra-processing marker), Stabiliser (Tara Gum (ultra-processing marker), Dried Carrots, Dried Garlic, Herbs (Parsley, Bay, Thyme, Rosemary), Onion, Black Pepper)
Additives: E417 Tara gum
As written on the pack
Water · Yeast Extract · Salt · Chicken Stock (Water · Chicken Bones · Chicken · Salt · Chicken Fat) · Dried Glucose · Stabiliser: Tara Gum · Dried Carrots · Dried Garlic · Dried Herbs (Parsley · Bay · Thyme · Rosemary) · Concentrated Onion Juice · Ground Black Pepper.
What makes it ultra-processed
Cosmetic additives
Added to change how the food looks, feels or tastes, not to keep it safe. A hallmark of ultra-processed food.
- E417 Tara gum Stabilisers are substances which make it possible to maintain the physico-chemical state of a foodstuff; stabilisers include substances which enable the maintenance of a homogenous dispersion of two or more immiscible substances in a foodstuff, substances which stabilise, retain or intensify an existing colour of a foodstuff and substances which increase the binding capacity of the food, including the formation of cross-links between proteins enabling the binding of food pieces into re-constituted food.
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.
- Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
1 ingredient 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.
Among 34 bouillon pots
From least to most processed, this one ranks 10th. 88% of the bouillon pots here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 29156238, last edited 21 June 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 E (from A, best, to E).
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.