Is Marks & Spencers BBQ Chicken ultra-processed?

120g Chickens Sold in the United Kingdom and France

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

Salt
Sugar

24 ingredients
No additives
Nutri-Score A

Less processed chickens

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

chicken breast 87%, brown sugar (processing marker), sugar (processing marker), salt (processing marker), vinegar, tomato paste, cornflour, spices (sweet paprika, smoked paprika, cloves, allspice), garlic puree, onion, tamarind paste, balsamic vinegar, molasses (processing marker), sea salt (processing marker), smokes salt, dried onions, cracked black pepper, red chilli puree, ginger, concentrated lemon juice

As written on the pack

chicken breast 87%, brown sugar, sugar, salt, vinegar, tomato paste, cornflour, ground spices (sweet paprika, smoked paprika, cloves, allspice), garlic puree, onion puree, tamarind paste, balsamic vinegar, molasses, sea salt, smokes salt, dried onions, cracked black pepper, red chilli puree, ginger puree, concentrated lemon juice.

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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 356 chickens

From least to most processed, this one ranks 73rd. 74% of the chickens 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 356 chickens, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00864374, last edited 23 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 A (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.