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Is Morrisons Chicken Tikka Masala with pilau rice ultra-processed?

400g Meals with chicken Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Morrisons Chicken Tikka Masala with pilau 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:

  • 38 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score C

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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

Water, chicken 20% (chicken breast, tomato paste, ginger, palm oil, garlic purée, yogurt powder, salt, cornflour, green chilli, spices, colour (paprika extract), basil), Onion, Basmati rice, Single cream, Tomato paste, Rapeseed oil, Low fat yogurt, Honey, Cashew nuts, Spices, Garlic purée, Ginger, Herbs, Unsalted butter, Salt, Colour (paprika extract), Cumin seed, Green chilli, Sugar, Cornflour, Cardamom pods, Clove, Lemon oil

Additives: E160c Paprika extract

As written on the pack

Water, Chargrilled marinated chicken (20%) (chicken breast, tomato paste, ginger purée, palm oil, garlic purée, yogurt powder (milk), salt, cornflour, green chilli purée, spices, colour (paprika extract), basil), Onion, Basmati rice, Single cream (milk), Tomato paste, Rapeseed oil, Low fat yogurt (milk), Honey, Cashew nuts, Spices, Garlic purée, Ginger purée, Herbs, Unsalted butter (milk), Salt, Colour (paprika extract), Cumin seed, Green chilli purée, Sugar, Cornflour, Cardamom pods, Clove, Lemon oil.

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.
  • Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
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.
  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 213 meals with chicken

From least to most processed, this one ranks 104th. 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 5010525363738, last edited 14 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.