Is Roosters Butter Chicken King Kebab ultra-processed?
Yes, it's ultra-processed
- 1 Unprocessed
- 2 Kitchen staple
- 3 Processed
- 4 Ultra-processed
Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:
- 31 ingredients
- 4 additives
- Nutri-Score B
Ingredients
Ultra-processing Processing
chicken leg 89%, butter chicken style marinade 7% (Sugar (processing marker), Dried Glucose Syrup (ultra-processing marker), Cream BEST Powder, Maize Starch (processing marker), Salt (processing marker), Garlic, Tomato, Onion, Yeast Extract, Cumin, Turmeric, Coriander, Chilli, Fenugreek, Coriander, Ground Ginger, Turmeric Extract (ultra-processing marker), Cinnamon, Acidity Regulator (Citric Acid), Colour (ultra-processing marker) (Paprika Extract (ultra-processing marker)), Thickener (ultra-processing marker) (Guar Gum (ultra-processing marker)), Coriander, Cassia, Ground Ginger, Cloves), Water
Additives: E100 Curcumin , E160c Paprika extract , E330 Citric acid , E412 Guar gum
As written on the pack
CHICKEN LEG (89%), BUTTER CHICKEN STYLE MARINADE (7%) (Sugar, Dried Glucose Syrup, Cream BEST Powder (Milk), Maize Starch, Salt, Garlic Powder, Tomato Powder, Onion Powder, Yeast Extract, Ground Cumin, Ground Turmeric, Ground Coriander, Chilli Powder, Ground Fenugreek, Dried Coriander, Ground Ginger, Turmeric Extract, Ground Cinnamon, Acidity Regulator: Citric Acid; Colour: Paprika Extract; Thickener: Guar Gum; Ground Coriander, Cassia Powder, Ground Ginger, Ground Cloves), Water.
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.
- E412 Guar gum Guar gum is a thickener ground from the seeds of the guar plant.
- Colour Colours are added to restore colour lost in processing or to make a product look more appealing.
- Thickener Thickeners, often gums or modified starches, make liquids more viscous so that a product feels richer than its ingredients alone would make it.
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.
- Glucose syrup Glucose syrup is cheap, keeps products moist and stops sugar from crystallising.
3 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.
About this information
- Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 4088600394909, 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.