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Is Minute Chicken & Herb Seasoned Rice ultra-processed?

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Pack of Minute Chicken & Herb Seasoned Rice

Yes, it's ultra-processed

  1. 1 Unprocessed
  2. 2 Kitchen staple
  3. 3 Processed
  4. 4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

  • 22 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Water, parboiled long grain rice, chicken seasoning (salt, chicken broth, yeast extract, sugar, maltodextrin, rice starch, onion, garlic powders, turmeric, chicken fat, chicken meat, natural flavors, oleoresin turmeric, spice), soybean oil, natural chicken flavor, gelatin, rapeseed lecithin, hydrolyzed corn protein

Additives: E322 Lecithins , E322i Lecithin , E428 Gelatine

As written on the pack

Water, parboiled long grain rice, chicken seasoning (salt, chicken broth, yeast extract, sugar, maltodextrin, rice starch, onion and garlic powders, turmeric, chicken fat, chicken meat, natural flavors, oleoresin turmeric, spice), soybean oil, natural chicken flavor, gelatin, rapeseed lecithin, hydrolyzed corn protein.

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.

  • E322 Lecithins Lecithins are fatty substances extracted mostly from soybeans, sunflower seeds or eggs, used as emulsifiers to keep fat and water mixed, for example in chocolate.
  • E428 Gelatine Gelatine is a gelling agent made from collagen in animal skin and bones.
  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.

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.

  • Maltodextrin Maltodextrin is a white powder made by partly breaking down starch.
5 ingredients that would only make it processed

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

  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Starch Starch extracted from cereals or potatoes, used to thicken.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

How the NOVA groups work

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0017400140021, last edited 12 May 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.