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Is Marks & Spencers Chicken Balti ultra-processed?

400 g Chicken curry Sold in the United Kingdom and France

Pack of Marks & Spencers Chicken Balti

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:

  • 36 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score A

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Chicken Breast 50%, Tomatoes 14%, Tomato Paste, Onions, Water, Red Peppers 5%, Rapeseed Oil, Garlic Purée, Low Fat Yogurt, Ginger, Single Cream, Coriander, Coriander, Lemon Juice, Salt, Green Chilli, Cornflour, Cumin, Garam Masala (Coriander, Cumin, Cinnamon, Nutmeg, Kashmiri Chilli Powder, Black Pepper, Green Cardamom, Cloves, Bay Leaves), Ginger, Kashmiri Chilli Powder, Turmeric, Black Onion Seeds, Cumin Seeds, Coriander Seeds, Red Chillies, Green Cardamom

As written on the pack

Chicken Breast (50%), Tomatoes (14%), Tomato Paste, Onions, Water, Red Peppers (5%), Rapeseed Oil, Garlic Purée, Low Fat Yogurt (Milk), Ginger, Single Cream (Milk), Coriander, Ground Coriander, Lemon Juice, Salt, Green Chilli Purée, Cornflour, Ground Cumin, Ground Garam Masala (Roasted Coriander, Roasted Cumin, Cinnamon, Nutmeg, Kashmiri Chilli Powder, Black Pepper, Green Cardamom, Cloves, Bay Leaves), Ginger Purée, Kashmiri Chilli Powder, Turmeric, Black Onion Seeds, Cumin Seeds, Coriander Seeds, Crushed Red Chillies, Whole Green Cardamom

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.

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 18 chicken curry

From least to most processed, this one ranks 4th. 61% of the chicken curry 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 18 chicken curry, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00214025, last edited 25 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.