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Is Oscar Mayer Lean White Turkey Oven Roasted ultra-processed?

16 oz Turkeys Sold in the United States and Puerto Rico

Pack of Oscar Mayer Lean White Turkey Oven Roasted

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:

  • 11 ingredients
  • 5 additives

Less processed turkeys

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

White turkey, water modified cornstarch, contains less than 2% of salt, sodium phosphates, sugar, sodium propionate, sodium diacetate, sodium benzoate, lemon, sodium ascorbate, sodium nitrite

Additives: E211 Sodium benzoate , E250 Sodium nitrite , E262 Sodium acetates , E262ii Sodium diacetate , E281 Sodium propionate

As written on the pack

White turkey, water modified cornstarch, contains less than 2% of salt, sodium phosphates, sugar, sodium propionate, sodium diacetate, sodium benzoate, lemon juice solids, sodium ascorbate, sodium nitrite,

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.

Preservation and traditional processing

Keep food safe or ferment it, like preservatives and cultures. A sign of processing, not ultra-processing.

  • 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.

Category rules

Open Food Facts puts every product in this category in at least this group.

  • Prepared meats Products in the category "Prepared meats" are at least group 3.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 66 turkeys

From least to most processed, this one ranks 26th. 61% of the turkeys 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 66 turkeys, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0044700064412, last edited 6 April 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.
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.