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Is Raku Chicken Poke ultra-processed?

306g Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Raku Chicken Poke

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:

  • 50 ingredients
  • No additives
  • Nutri-Score C

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Cooked rice (water, rice, sugar, spirit vinegar, rice vinegar, salt, rapeseed oil, fructose-glucose syrup, cane molasses), chicken breast 13% (chicken breast, salt, cornflour), soy sesame dressing 9% (water, soy sauce (water, soya beans, wheat, salt, alcohol), sugar, rice Vinegar, sesame seed oil, modified maize starch, onion, spirit vinega, apple juice, ginger, lemon juice concentrate, lime juice concentrate, garlic, white pepper), spicy edamame beans 8% (edamame beans, spring onion, white sesame seeds, red pepper), cucumber 8% (cucumber, salt), red cabbage 5% (red cabbage, rice vinegar, sugar, salt), carrot 2%, white sesame seeds, black sesame

As written on the pack

Cooked rice (water, rice, sugar, spirit vinegar, rice vinegar, salt, rapeseed oil, fructose-glucose syrup, cane molasses), cooked chicken breast (13%) (chicken breast, salt, cornflour), soy sesame dressing (9%) (water, soy sauce (water, soya beans, wheat, salt, alcohol), sugar, rice Vinegar, sesame seed oil, modified maize starch, onion purée, spirit vinega, apple juice concentrate, ginger puree, lemon juice concentrate, lime juice concentrate, garlic powder, white pepper), spicy edamame beans (8%) (edamame beans (soya), spring onion, white sesame seeds, red pepper powder), salted cucumber (8%) (cucumber, salt), pickled red cabbage (5%) (red cabbage, rice vinegar, sugar, salt), carrot (2%), white sesame seeds, black sesame seeds.

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.

  • 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.

  • Glucose Glucose, usually listed as glucose syrup, is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
  • Fructose Fructose is the sugar found naturally in fruit and honey, but as an ingredient it is refined industrially, mostly from corn starch.
5 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.

  • 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.
  • Vegetable oil Vegetable oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.
  • Sauce A prepared sauce used as an ingredient.

How the NOVA groups work

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5035272148018, last edited 20 February 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.