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Is Myprotein Hot Honey Chicken MAC & CHEESE with pepperoni ultra-processed?

Meals with chicken Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Myprotein Hot Honey Chicken MAC & CHEESE with pepperoni

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:

  • 82 ingredients
  • 10 additives
  • Nutri-Score A

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Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Cooked Gomiti Pasta 25% (Water, Durum Wheat Semolina), Cooked Seared Chicken 18%, Chicken Breast 98%, Maize Milk, Pepperoni 6% (Pork, Dextrose, Pork Fat, Sodium Ascorbate, Extracts of Rosemary, Smoked Salt, Sea Salt, Starter Culture, Rice Starch, Sodium Nitrite, Spices, Onion Powder, Paprika Extract, Chilli, White Pepper, Garlic Extract), Hot Honey Sauce 6% (Honey, Glucose Syrup, White Wine Vinegar, Tomato Paste, Water, Honey, Sugar, Garlic Powder, Salt, Spices, Cornflour, Paprika Extract, Acetic Acid), Eatlean™ Cheese, Eatlean™ Coloured (Cheese 4%, Cheese), Annatto Norbixin, Quark, Maize Starch, Mozzarella Cheese, Full Fat Soft Cheese, Garlic Purée, Cheese Stock (Water, Flavouring, Cheese Powder, Rapeseed Oil, Salt, Yeast Extract), Mustard (Water, White Vinegar, Mustard Flour, Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Niacin, Iron, Folic Acid, Thiamin), Salt, Spices, Xanthan Gum, Garlic Powder, Onion Powder), Parsley, Lemon Juice, Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Niacin, Iron, Folic Acid, Thiamin), Yeast Extract, Spices, Paprika Extract

Additives: E160b Annatto , E160bii Annatto norbixin , E160c Paprika extract , E170 Calcium carbonates , E170i Calcium carbonate , E250 Sodium nitrite , E260 Acetic acid , E301 Sodium ascorbate , E392 Extracts of rosemary , E415 Xanthan gum

As written on the pack

Cooked Gomiti Pasta (25%) (Water, Durum Wheat Semolina), Cooked Seared Chicken (18%) (Chicken Breast (98%), Maize Milk, Smoked Pepperoni (6%) (Pork, Dextrose, Pork Fat, Antioxidants: Sodium Ascorbate, Extracts of Rosemary, Smoked Salt, Sea Salt, Starter Culture, Rice Starch, Preservative: Sodium Nitrite; Spices, Onion Powder, Paprika Extract, Chilli Extract, White Pepper Extract, Garlic Extract), Hot Honey Sauce (6%) (Honey, Glucose Syrup, White Wine Vinegar, Tomato Paste, Water, Honey Powder, Sugar, Garlic Powder, Salt, Spices, Cornflour, Colour: Paprika Extract; Acidity Regulator: Acetic Acid), Eatlean™ Cheese (Milk) (4.5%). Eatlean™ Coloured Cheese (4%) (Cheese (Milk), Colour: Annatto Norbixin), Quark (Milk), Maize Starch, Mozzarella Cheese (Milk), Full Fat Soft Cheese (Milk), Garlic Purée, Cheese Stock (Water, Flavouring, Cheese Powder (Milk), Rapeseed Oil, Salt, Yeast Extract (contains Barley)), Mustard (Water, White Vinegar, Mustard Flour, Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Niacin, Iron, Folic Acid, Thiamin), Salt, Spices, Stabiliser: Xanthan Gum; Garlic Powder, Onion Powder), Parsley, Lemon Juice, Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Niacin, Iron, Folic Acid, Thiamin), Yeast Extract, Spices, Colour: Paprika Extract.

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.

  • E160b Annatto Colours are substances which add or restore colour in a food, and include natural constituents of foods and natural sources which are normally not consumed as foods as such and not normally used as characteristic ingredients of food.
  • E160c Paprika extract Paprika extract is a red-orange colour extracted from paprika peppers.
  • E170 Calcium carbonates Calcium carbonate is chalk.
  • E415 Xanthan gum Xanthan gum is a thickener made by fermenting sugar with the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.
  • 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.

  • Dextrose Dextrose is pure glucose crystallised from starch-derived syrup.
  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
7 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.

  • E250 Sodium nitrite Preservatives are substances which prolong the shelf-life of foods by protecting them against deterioration caused by micro-organisms and/or which protect against growth of pathogenic micro-organisms.
  • Meals Products in the category "Meals" are at least group 3.
  • Honey Honey, used as a sweetener.
  • 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.
  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 213 meals with chicken

From least to most processed, this one ranks 211th. 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 5010482409906, last edited 5 August 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.