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Is Pret A Manger Chef's Italian Chicken Salad ultra-processed?

Salads with meat Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Pret A Manger Chef's Italian Chicken Salad

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:

  • 61 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Cher's Italian Chicken Salad Chicken with Caesar mayonnaise topped with roasted pistachios, hard cheese, with French dressing, Bones, olive stones may remain Ingredients Mixed Salad Leaves, Chicken 18% (Chicken Breast, Salt), Tomato, Dressing Chagrilled Red Peppers (Red Pepper, Sunflower Oil), Cucumber, Caesar Mayonnaise 6%, Sapseed Oil, Water, Free Range Egg Yolk, Hard Cheese, Cheese, servative lysozyme, Egg Red Wine Vinegar, Sugar, Cornflour, Concentrated Lemon Juice, Sauce (Water, Molasses, Spirit Vinegar, Salf, Onion Powder, Tamarind Paste, Spices), Anchory Paste (Anchovy, Salt, Olive Oil, White Wine Vinegar), Spirit Vinegar, Dried Geri Kalamata Olives (Kalamata Olives, Salt, Rapeseed Oil), Roasted Pistachio Nuts Phachio Nuts 2.5%, Hard Cheese, Dressing contains (Vegetable Oil Oil, Rapeseed Oil in varying proportions), White Wine Vinegar, Extra Virgin Olive Sherry Vinegar, Water, Black Pepper, Lemon Juice, Salt, Garlic Purée, Plain aber Danthan Gum, Nutrition Informa Energy (KJ), which 38'120 of which (g), Hard cheese Keep refrigerated Allergies? For all see ingredients in be food is allergen food is made to a milk and egg alleges London SW1E SCH UK04710901762 FP0000006002 Use by (DEC)

Additives: E1105 Lysozyme

As written on the pack

Cher's Italian Chicken Salad Chicken with Caesar mayonnaise topped with roasted pistachios and hard cheese, with French dressing (Bones and olive stones may remain Ingredients Mixed Salad Leaves, Chicken (18%) (Chicken Breast, Salt), Tomato, French Dressing Chagrilled Red Peppers (Red Pepper, Sunflower Oil) Cucumber, Caesar Mayonnaise (6%) Sapseed Oil, Water, Free Range Egg Yolk (Egg), Italian Hard Cheese (Cheese (Milk) servative lysozyme (Egg Red Wine Vinegar, Sugar, Cornflour, Concentrated Lemon Juice. Sauce (Water, Molasses, Spirit Vinegar, Salf, Onion Powder, Tamarind Paste, Spices) Anchory Paste (Anchovy (Fish) Salt, Olive Oil, White Wine Vinegar) Spirit Vinegar, Dried Geri Kalamata Olives (Kalamata Olives, Salt, Rapeseed Oil), Roasted Pistachio Nuts Phachio Nuts) (2.5%) Hard Cheese (Milk) (2.0%) French Dressing contains: Vegetable Oil Oil and Rapeseed Oil in varying proportions), White Wine Vinegar, Extra Virgin Olive Sherry Vinegar, Water, Black Pepper, Lemon Juice, Salt, Garlic Purée, colour (Plain aber Danthan Gum) Nutrition Informa Energy (KJ) 698 02 132412 of which 38'120 of which (g) 8.1/253 Hard cheese Keep refrigerated Allergies? For all see ingredients in be food is allergen food is made to a milk or egg alleges London SW1E SCH UK04710901762 FP0000006002 Use by: 16 DEC

What makes it processed

Processed ingredients

Processed foods in their own right, such as cheese or milk powder.

  • Cheese Cheese is milk preserved with salt, cultures and rennet.
  • Sauce A prepared sauce used as an ingredient.

Culinary ingredients

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

  • Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
  • Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

Category rules

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

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

How the NOVA groups work

Among 27 salads with meat

From least to most processed, this one ranks 8th. 67% of the salads with meat 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 27 salads with meat, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5059977000280, last edited 23 September 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.