Is Marks And Spencer high protein Korean chicken egg wrap ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 26 ingredients
- 2 additives
Less processed chicken wraps
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
British Chicken 37% (Chicken Breast 31.08%, Rapeseed Oil Garlic Purée, Spices (Ginger Black Pepper Turmeric), Cornflour Salt Coriander), Egg 16%, White Cabbage, Spinach 8%, Rapeseed Oil Water Dried Egg Dried Skimmed Milk Coriander Vinegar Sugar, Pasteurised Egg Yolk, Glucose Syrup Salt Rice Wine Vinegar Soybeans Garlic Purée Cornflour, Fructose (ultra-processing marker), White Wine Vinegar Lemon Juice Concentrated Red Pepper Juice Wheat, Concentrated Onion Juice Unsalted Butter, Dried Onions Cayenne Pepper Rice Natural Colour (Paprika Extract (ultra-processing marker), with Wheatflour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Dried Chillies Concentrated Lemon Juice, Dried Garlic Mustard Extract Acidity Regulator (Citric Acid Thickener), Xanthan Gum (ultra-processing marker)
Additives: E160c Paprika extract , E415 Xanthan gum
As written on the pack
Cooked Marinated British Chicken (37%) (Chicken Breast (84%) Rapeseed Oil Garlic Purée. Ground Spices (Ginger Black Pepper Turmeric) Cornflour Salt Coriander) Pasteurised Egg (16%) - White Cabbage - Spinach (8%) Rapeseed Oil Water Dried Egg Dried Skimmed Milk Coriander Vinegar Sugar. Pasteurised Egg Yolk - Glucose Syrup Salt Rice Wine Vinegar Soybeans Garlic Purée Cornflour. Fructose - White Wine Vinegar Lemon Juice Concentrated Red Pepper Juice Wheat (contains Gluten). Concentrated Onion Juice Unsalted Butter (Milk) Dried Onions Cayenne Pepper Rice Natural Colour: Paprika Extract - Tomato Powder Gelling Agent: Pectin Dried Red Peppers Wheatflour contains Gluten (with Wheatflour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin) Dried Chillies Concentrated Lemon Juice - Dried Garlic Mustard Extract Acidity Regulator: Citric Acid Thickener: Xanthan Gum.
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.
- E160c Paprika extract Paprika extract is a red-orange colour extracted from paprika peppers.
- E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
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.
- Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
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.
- Sandwiches Products in the category "Sandwiches" are at least group 3.
Among 20 chicken wraps
From least to most processed, this one ranks 6th. 90% of the chicken wraps here are ultra-processed.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 29392896, last edited 2 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.
- General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.