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Is Marks and spencers Just Add british tikka chicken fillets ultra-processed?

165g Meals with chicken Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Marks and spencers Just Add british tikka chicken fillets

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:

  • 19 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score A

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

chicken breast 82%, low fat yogurt, sugar, garlic purée ginger purée salt ground spices (cardamon, chilli, coriander cumin ginger), greek style yogurt, herbs (bay leaves, coriander leaves parsley), yogurt, cornflour dried tomatoes, dried garlic tapioca starch sunflower oil, tomato purée vinegar colour (paprika extract acidity regulator), citric acid, black onion seeds ginger extract, garlic extract

Additives: E330 Citric acid

As written on the pack

cooked chicken breast (82%) low fat yogurt (milk) sugar, garlic purée ginger purée salt ground spices (cardamon - chilli · coriander cumin ginger) greek style yogurt (milk) dried herbs (bay leaves, coriander leaves parsley) dried yogurt (milk) cornflour dried tomatoes - dried garlic tapioca starch sunflower oil, tomato purée vinegar colour: paprika extract acidity regulator, citric acid, black onion seeds ginger extract, garlic extract, , , , , , ,

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

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 213 meals with chicken

From least to most processed, this one ranks 36th. 79% of the meals with chicken 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 213 meals with chicken, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 29181278, last edited 27 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.