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Is Patak’s Old Deli Style Butter Chicken Curry Kit ultra-processed?

270g Curry sauces Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Patak’s Old Deli Style Butter Chicken Curry Kit

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:

  • 34 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • 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, Tomato Paste, Spices 5% (Coriander, Spices, Ginger, Cumin, Paprika, Smoked Paprika, Cardamom, Clove, Chilli), Rapeseed Oil, Single Cream, Sugar, Crushed Tomato, Dried Onion, Garlic Purée, Ginger, Modified Maize Starch, Spirit Vinegar, Salt, Butter, Maize Flour, Onion, Rice Flour, Garlic, Acidity Regulator (Lactic Acid), Paprika Extract, Whey Protein, Dried Fenugreek Leaf, Turmeric Extract, Coriander Leaf

Additives: E100 Curcumin , E160c Paprika extract , E270 Lactic acid

As written on the pack

Water, Concentrated Tomato Paste, Ground Spices (5%) (Coriander, Spices, Ginger, Cumin, Paprika, Smoked Paprika, Cardamom, Clove, Chilli), Rapeseed Oil, Single Cream (MILK) (3.5%), Sugar, Concentrated Crushed Tomato, Dried Onion, Garlic Purée, Ginger Purée, Modified Maize Starch, Spirit Vinegar, Salt, Butter (MILK) (1%), Maize Flour, Onion Powder, Rice Flour, Garlic Powder, Acidity Regulator (Lactic Acid), Paprika Extract, Whey Protein Concentrate (MILK), Dried Fenugreek Leaf, Turmeric Extract, Dried Coriander Leaf.

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.

  • E100 Curcumin 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.
  • Modified starch Modified starch is starch altered physically, with enzymes or chemically, so that it thickens, gels or survives freezing and heating better than ordinary starch.

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.

  • Milk proteins Milk proteins are proteins separated from milk, such as caseinates and whey protein concentrates, added to adjust texture or raise protein content.
4 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.

  • Butter Butter, the fat churned from cream.
  • 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 89 curry sauces

From least to most processed, this one ranks 76th. 67% of the curry sauces 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 89 curry sauces, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5011308701518, 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.