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Is Red Hen Tempura Chicken Steaks ultra-processed?

380 Breaded chicken Sold in the United Kingdom

Pack of Red Hen Tempura Chicken Steaks

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:

  • 21 ingredients
  • 1 additive
  • Nutri-Score B

Less processed breaded chicken

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

Chopped and shaped fed icken breast steaks with added water in a tempura coating Ingredients 58% Chicken Oil, Coating, Wheat Flour, Yea Meat, Water, Flour (Wheat, Maize), Rapeseed Pea Fibre, Starch (Wheat, Pea, Tapioca), Salt, Glucose, Raising Agents (hosphates), Sodium Carbonates, Natural Flavourings, Skimmed Milk Pod Cereals containing Gluten, see Allergy Advice For allergens including Care

Additives: E500 Sodium carbonates

As written on the pack

Chopped and shaped fed icken breast steaks with added water in a tempura coating Ingredients 58% Chicken Oil, Coating (Wheat Flour, Yea Meat, Water, Flour (Wheat. Maize), Rapeseed Pea Fibre, Starch (Wheat, Pea, Tapioca), Salt, Glucose, Raising Agents:hosphates, Sodium Carbonates; Natural Flavourings, Skimmed Milk Pod Cereals containing Gluten, see Allergy Advice For allergens including Care

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.

  • Flavouring Flavourings are concentrated aroma preparations that add or intensify a taste.

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.
2 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.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 115 breaded chicken

From least to most processed, this one ranks 53rd. 83% of the breaded chicken 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 115 breaded chicken, least processed first

About this information

  • Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 5905514765658, 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 B (from A, best, to E).
  • General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.