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Is Pret Chicken ceasar bacon baguette ultra-processed?

1 Baguette Chicken sandwiches Sold in the United Kingdom and Switzerland

Pack of Pret Chicken ceasar bacon baguette

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:

  • 67 ingredients
  • 3 additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Stone Baked Baguette (Wheat Flour (Wheat), Water, Brown Linseed, Malted is may remain), Wheat Flakes (Wheat), Sunflower Seeds, Yeast, Salt, Wheatgerm (Wheat), Potassium Chloride, Potassium Gluconate, Malted Wheat Flour (Wheat), Sesame Seeds, Chicken 21% (Chicken Breast, Salt), Caesar Mayonnaise 8.5%, Rapeseed Oil, Water, Free-Range Egg Yolk, Italian Hard Cheese, Cheese, preservative (Lysozyme), Red Wine Vinegar, Sugar, Cornflour, Concentrated Lemon Juice, Worcestershire Sauce (Water, Spirit Vinegar, Cane Molasses, Tamarind Paste, Salt, Onion Powder, Spices), Salt, Anchovy Paste (Anchovy, Salt, Olive Oil), Spirit Vinegar, Dried Garlic, Yogurt Mayonnaise Mix (Natural Yogurt, Rapeseed Oil, Water, Free-Range Egg Yolk, Spirit Vinegar, Sugar, Salt, Cornflour), Streaky Bacon (Pork Belly, Water, Salt, preservative (Sodium Nitrite), antioxidant (Sodium Ascorbate)), Rocket, Hard Cheese

Additives: E1105 Lysozyme , E250 Sodium nitrite , E301 Sodium ascorbate

As written on the pack

Stone Baked Baguette (Wheat Flour (Wheat), Water, Brown Linseed, Malted is may remain). Wheat Flakes (Wheat), Sunflower Seeds, Yeast, Salt, Wheatgerm (Wheat), Potassium Chloride, Potassium Gluconate, Malted Wheat Flour (Wheat), Sesame Seeds (Sesame)), Chicken (21%) (Chicken Breast, Salt), Caesar Mayonnaise (8.5%) (Rapeseed Oil, Water, Free-Range Egg Yolk (Egg), Italian Hard Cheese (Cheese (Milk), preservative (Lysozyme (Egg) (Egg))), Red Wine Vinegar, Sugar, Cornflour, Concentrated Lemon Juice, Worcestershire Sauce (Water, Spirit Vinegar, Cane Molasses, Tamarind Paste, Salt, Onion Powder, Spices), Salt, Anchovy Paste (Anchovy (Fish), Salt, Olive Oil), Spirit Vinegar, Dried Garlic), Yogurt Mayonnaise Mix (Natural Yogurt (Milk), Rapeseed Oil, Water, Free-Range Egg Yolk (Egg), Spirit Vinegar, Sugar, Salt, Cornflour), Streaky Bacon (Pork Belly, Water, Salt, preservative (Sodium Nitrite), antioxidant (Sodium Ascorbate)), Rocket, Hard Cheese (Milk).

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.

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.
  • Preservative Preservatives slow spoilage by microbes.

Category rules

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

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

How the NOVA groups work

Among 16 chicken sandwiches

From least to most processed, this one ranks 1st. 94% of the chicken sandwiches 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 16 chicken sandwiches, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5059977000105, last edited 4 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 C (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.